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Venus Williams #17 def. Mona Barthel #181

6-3 7-5

Match Information

Date	Jan 24, 2017*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Venus Williams
Score	6-3 7-5
Loser	Mona Barthel

Stat	Venus Williams	Mona Barthel
Aces	4	1
Double faults	7	1
First serve %	65	70
First serve points won %	73	50
Second serve points won %	50	62
Break points saved %	80	60
Break points converted %	40	20
Service points won %	65	54
Return points won %	46	35
Total points won %	56	44

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Mona Barthel
Country	USA	GER
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Jul 11, 1990
Age	36	26
Height	185	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	17	181
Ranking points (entering)	2,240	312
Elo (entering)	1,834	1,621
Career W-L	768–288	151–179
Career earnings	$43,095,580	$4,508,513

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams 2 – 0 Mona Barthel

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Yingying Duan	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Stefanie Voegele	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Kateryna Baindl	7-6(5) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data

Venus Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 26, 2017	QF	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-4 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data

Mona Barthel's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Ashleigh Barty	6-4 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Monica Puig	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Destanee Aiava	6-3 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data