H2H: Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) v Elise Mertens (Belgium) - comparison. Sabalenka will start off as the clear favorite. As opponents, they have met five times with the Belarusian winning the last two clashes, at 2019 Zhuhai and 2020 Dubai, to take a 3-2 lead in the head-to-head. It will be their second battle in a ...
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H2H: Aryna Sabalenka v Barbora Krejcikova - comparison. Krejcikova has never beaten anyone ranked in the top 30. However, five out of her eight attempts went to the deciding set, including against the likes of Halep and Azarenka at the recently-held Prague and Ostrava, respectively. Still, it will be Sabalenka who ...
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H2H: Aryna Sabalenka v Oceane Dodin - comparison. Suffice to say, Sabalenka will be the hot favorite to beat the French player for the second time in a few months, and consolidate her 4-1 season quarterfinal record. In September, she outlived Dodin, 7-6, 6-4, in the first round of the US Open, winning 33/35 ...
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H2H: Aryna Sabalenka v Stefanie Voegele - comparison. Sabalenka is looking set to extend her winning streak, and enter her sixth quarterfinal of the season and the third one after the resumption (Strasbourg, Ostrava). The pair's only previous encounter came in the semifinal of Lugano in April 2018 when Sabalenka ...
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H2H: Aryna Sabalenka v Jasmine Paolini - comparison. During the pair's only previous clash, in June 2017, the pair were ranked just two places within each other — Sabalenka at 128, Paolini at 130. They met in the first round of the $100k Ilkley, a grass-court tournament in the UK, with the Italian surviving 4-6, 7-5, ...
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H2H: Victoria Azarenka v Aryna Sabalenka - comparison. Both of the pair's previous encounters came at the US Open. Last year, Sabalenka rallied from a set down to expel her countrywoman in the first round of that tournament. Azarenka managed to avenge that loss a few weeks ago, winning 6-1, 6-3 in the second round as ...
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H2H: Aryna Sabalenka v Jennifer Brady - comparison. It has been a trying week for Sabalenka in every way; in doubles, she needed match tiebreaks to win both of her matches and book the final-four place with Mertens. The world no. 12 owns a 10-6 career record in semifinals, including 1-2 in this season, going on to ...
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Preview and players comparison. Bertens won her first four encounters with Sabalenka, starting from a Fed Cup match in 2017 to the quarterfinal of Eastbourne this June. The Belarusian got off the mark in Wuhan a few weeks ago, prevailing 6-1, 7-6 in the third round en route to the title. She faced a set point in the ...
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Preview and players comparison. Sabalenka is expected to end Muchova's breakthrough season and enter a fifth Chinese WTA final. Her odds are further consolidated by her opponent's fitness concerns. She would be the first Belarusian to enter the final of the five-year-old WTA Elite Trophy. Muchova, on the other ...
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Preview and players comparison. Before their doubles partnership, they clashed against each other three times in the singles court in the 2018 season. Mertens won the final of Lugano, 7-5, 6-2, and third round of Montreal, 2-6, 7-6, 6-0 (saved a match point), while Sabalenka prevailed on Eastbourne's grass, 7-5, 2-6, ...
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