Anna Blinkova surprises the 2023 runner-up Elena Rybakina 6-4 4-6 7-6(20) in the 2nd round in Melbourne on Thursday. Blinkova will have to play Jasmine Paolini in the 3rd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 46 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2017 and 2020. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Anna added to her prize money $ 75,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 255,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Anna will add $ 120,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 375,000 in total.
Highlights Anna Blinkova vs. Elena Rybakina Australian Open – Melbourne
Blinkova’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:46
The Russian won this match even if she scored less points than Rybakina (115 vs. 121).
Blinkova
Anna didn’t lose the focus when converting 83% of the break points that she procured (5/6).
Rybakina
On the other side, Rybakina didn’t lose the focus when converting 71% of the break points that she conquered points (5/7). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Blinkova and Rybakina is 2-0 for Anna.
Draw and next match H2H: Anna Blinkova vs. Jasmine Paolini – stats
Blinkova will come up against Paolini in the 3rd round.
This will be the 6th time that Anna Blinkova and Jasmine Paolini square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Blinkova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Blinkova won 6-2 3-6 6-2 in the final in Napoca back in 2022.
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-0 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Oceane DodinDodin – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Clara BurelBurel – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-4 4-6 7-620) – Stats and score progression
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Arantxa RusRus (6-1 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Mccartney KesslerKessler (6-3 1-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (1-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Diane ParryParry – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Elise MertensMertens (5-7 6-1 7-66) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Caroline DolehideDolehide (7-62 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-0 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Alina KorneevaKorneeva (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Storm HunterHunter – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Brenda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Kaja JuvanJuvan (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-4 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Alycia ParksParks – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-3) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Sloane StephensStephens (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Oceane DodinDodin – Clara BurelBurel (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alycia ParksParks – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Storm SandersSanders – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-1) – H2H details and stats
