Elena Rybakina obliterates Mayar Sherif 6-1 6-4 in the 3rd round in Madrid on Sunday after playing a marvellous match to fight against Sara Bejlek in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes. This will be her best result in this event. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 3rd round in 2022. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Rybakina added to her prize money € 36,775 after winning this match. She has already won € 88,440 after this win. If she wins the next match, Elena will add € 73,515 to her earnings to get in total € 161,955 in total.
Highlights Elena Rybakina vs. Mayar Sherif Mutua Madrid Open – Madrid
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Kazakhstani scored 70 points vs. Mayar’s 52.
Rybakina
Elena served extremely well to win 85% of the points (22/26) behind her first serve, and she won 59% points (16/27) on her second serve. Elena won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points after she converted only 23% (3/13) of the procured opportunities.
Sherif
On the other side, Mayar wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Rybakina and Sherif is 2-0 for Elena.
Draw and next match H2H: Elena Rybakina vs. Sara Bejlek – stats
Rybakina will come up against Bejlek in the 4th round.
There is no head to head record between Elena Rybakina and Sara Bejlek since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Rybakina was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Mayar Sherif in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Rybakina reinforced her lead after breaking Sherif in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A defining moment of this set was when Rybakina won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
Rybakina converted 25% of her break points (2/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 3rd game (3-0 30-40). On the other side, Elena didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 67 points. Elena conquered the set after winning 9 more points than the Egyptian (38-29). Elena dropped 8 points on serve (17-8). On the other side, Mayar conceded 21 points on serve (21-21).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that the Kazakhstani grabbed in the 3rd game (2-1) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-4).
Elena missed the chance to break Sherif in the 9th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Elena converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Egyptian was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 55 points. The Kazakhstani won 9 more points than Sherif (32-23). Rybakina dropped 7 points on serve (21-7). on the other side of the net, Mayar conceded 11 points on serve (16-11).
Tennis Scores in Madrid
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- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-2 6-2)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Mayar SherifSherif (6-1 6-4)
- Sara BejlekBejlek – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-1)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Jaqueline CristianCristian (3-6 6-4 6-1)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-3 6-2)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-65 7-5)
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-60 6-3)
- Cori GauffGauff – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 6-1)
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Sloane StephensStephens (6-1 6-3)
- Madison KeysKeys – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-3)
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-4 6-4)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-1 6-1)
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (7-5 2-6 6-4)
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Maria Lourdes CarleLourdes Carle (6-3 6-3)
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