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Victoria Azarenka #1 def. Maria Sharapova #3

6-3 6-0

Match Information

Date	Jan 30, 2012*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Victoria Azarenka
Score	6-3 6-0
Loser	Maria Sharapova

Stat	Victoria Azarenka	Maria Sharapova
Aces	0	1
Double faults	4	3
First serve %	71	64
First serve points won %	68	53
Second serve points won %	53	18
Break points saved %	75	29
Break points converted %	71	25
Service points won %	63	40
Return points won %	60	37
Total points won %	62	38

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Victoria Azarenka	Maria Sharapova
Country	BLR	RUS
Birth date	Jul 31, 1989	Apr 19, 1987
Age	22	24
Height	183	188
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	—
Ranking (entering)	1	3
Ranking points (entering)	8,585	7,560
Elo (entering)	2,092	2,038
Career W-L	575–266	596–174
Career earnings	$38,890,473	$38,777,962

Pre-match H2H

Victoria Azarenka 3 – 3 Maria Sharapova

Path

Victoria Azarenka's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 29, 2012	SF	Kim Clijsters	6-4 1-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2012	QF	Agnieszka Radwanska	6-7(0) 6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 25, 2012	R16	Iveta Benesova	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2012	R32	Mona Barthel	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 20, 2012	R64	Casey Dellacqua	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2012	R128	Heather Watson	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Victoria Azarenka's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Maria Sharapova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 29, 2012	SF	Petra Kvitova	6-2 3-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2012	QF	Ekaterina Makarova	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 25, 2012	R16	Sabine Lisicki	3-6 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2012	R32	Angelique Kerber	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 20, 2012	R64	Jamie Hampton	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2012	R128	Gisela Dulko	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data