Elena Rybakina ousts Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 6-4 in the semifinal in Doha on Friday. Rybakina will face Iga Swiatek in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. Here you can see her history at this event.

Doha
Rybakina's Record

Elena added to her prize money $ 149,376 after winning this match. She has already won $ 308,320 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Kazakhstani will add $ 215,165 to her earnings to get in total $ 523,485 in total.

Highlights Elena Rybakina vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Doha

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Rybakina
Pavlyuchenkova
6-2 6-4
1h:29
73
73
Total points
59
59
36
36
Winners
27
27
49%
49%
Ratio Winners
46%
46%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
2
2
2
2
Double Faults
2
2
70%
70%
1st in
71%
71%
68%
68%
1st won
68%
68%
36/53
36/53
1st won
27/40
27/40
52%
52%
2nd won
25%
25%
12/23
12/23
2nd won
4/16
4/16
-- Break Points --
4/6
4/6
Total
1/9
1/9
67%
67%
Won
11%
11%
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At the end of the match, Elena scored 73 points vs. the Russian’s 59.

Rybakina

Rybakina was pretty good at converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6).

Pavlyuchenkova

On the other side, Pavlyuchenkova was struggling when converting her break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Rybakina and Pavlyuchenkova is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Elena Rybakina vs. Iga Swiatek – stats

Rybakina will square off with Swiatek in the final.

This will be the 5th time that Elena Rybakina and Iga Swiatek play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Rybakina won 2-6 7-63 2-2 ret. in the quarter in Rome back in 2023.

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
Rybakina 6-2
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
6
2
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
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30
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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2
15
0
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30
15
40
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40
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40
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40
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40
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40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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2
0
15
15
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30
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40
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40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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2
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40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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0
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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Elena in this set was more solid than Pavlyuchenkova and without struggling too much she won 6-2 after breaking Anastasia in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.

Anastasia was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 6 games of the set when the game count went from 1-2

to 6-2.

Elena converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A), the 7th (4-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (6-1 30-40). On the other side, Anastasia wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th

game (2-5 40-A).

They contested 61 points. The Kazakhstani was the one to win the set after conquering 11 more points than Anastasia (36-25). Elena dropped 8 points on serve (19-8). on the other side of the net, Pavlyuchenkova conceded 17 points on serve (17-17).

2nd Set -
Rybakina 6-4
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
6
4
0
15
15
15
30
15
30
30
30
40
40
40
A
40
40
40
A
40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
5
4
0
15
0
30
15
30
15
40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
5
3
15
0
30
0
30
15
30
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40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
5
2
0
15
15
15
30
15
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30
40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
5
1
15
0
30
0
30
15
40
15
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
4
1
15
0
15
15
30
15
30
30
40
30
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
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1
0
15
0
30
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40
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A
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A
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40
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A
40
40
A
40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
2
1
0
15
0
30
0
40
15
40
RybakinaPavlyuchenkova
2
0
15
0
30
0
40
0

Rybakina was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, that was not enough for Rybakina to win the set as Pavlyuchenkova managed to break back in the 8th (3-5) game.

Rybakina was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th game (3-1 30-40). On the other side, Pavlyuchenkova converted 12% of her break points (1/8). She had her opportunities in the 4th (1-2 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 8th (2-5 30-40) and the 10th game (4-5 30-40).

They played 71 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Elena won just 3 more points than the Russian (37-34). Elena dropped 20 points on serve (29-20). On the losing side, the Russian conceded 8 points on serve (14-8).

1st
Rybakina
Pavlyuchenkova
6-2
6
2
5
2
4
2
3
2
2
2
1
2
1
1
0
1
2nd
Rybakina
Pavlyuchenkova
6-4
6
4
5
4
5
3
5
2
5
1
4
1
3
1
2
1
2
0
1
0

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