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Pavlyuchenkova is 12-7 in career finals, most recently lifting a title at 2018 Strasbourg, though all but two of her trophies have been Internationals. Bencic is 3-6 in showpiece matches, and all wins coming at Premier level. She leads the series by 3-1, including prevailing in July en ...
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Pavlyuchenkova has spent six hours and 16 minutes across her three matches, as opposed to Muchova's four hours. The home favorite has a wealth of experience in Moscow, going for her 20th win at the tournament. That being said, the Czech has been far more lethal in 2019 and, ...
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The compatriots have met a couple of times on Chinese soil this year. Kudermetova drew the first blood in the second round of Shenzhen, 6-2, 1-6, 6-2, while the older Russian leveled the field in the first round of Beijing in a deciding set tiebreak. Needless to say, both players carry ...
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Pavlyuchenkova has lost three out of her last four meetings with compatriots who held an outside top 100 ranking, as opposed to a 17-4 career win-loss in such affairs. As she meets the teenager for their first encounter, the 28-year-old hopes to win back-to-back matches just for the ...
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Sakkari defeated Pavlyuchenkova, 6-1, 7-5, in the first round of Rome in May, saving 3/3 breakpoints in the first set and erasing a 1-4 deficit in the second. She was in a lethal form at that time, fresh off her maiden career title at Rabat. Given it is her first match in a month and a ...
Overview.
The pair have met twice in the last twelve months. Pavlyuchenkova edged, 7-5, 7-5, here at Linz last year, while the youngster retaliated in the opening round of Miami in March 6-7, 6-4, 7-5. In the latter match, Kuzmova lost the first set after leading by 5-2 but eventually won in two hours and 32 minutes. ...