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Venus Williams #17 def. Coco Vandeweghe #35

6-7(3) 6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jan 28, 2017*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Venus Williams
Score	6-7(3) 6-2 6-3
Loser	Coco Vandeweghe

Stat	Venus Williams	Coco Vandeweghe
Aces	11	10
Double faults	5	11
First serve %	57	55
First serve points won %	77	75
Second serve points won %	43	40
Break points saved %	92	44
Break points converted %	56	8
Service points won %	63	59
Return points won %	41	37
Total points won %	53	47

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Coco Vandeweghe
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Dec 6, 1991
Age	36	25
Height	185	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	17	35
Ranking points (entering)	2,240	1,366
Elo (entering)	1,855	1,810
Career W-L	768–288	138–151
Career earnings	$43,095,580	$8,225,494

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams 1 – 0 Coco Vandeweghe

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 26, 2017	QF	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-4 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2017	R16	Mona Barthel	6-3 7-5	W	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 29, 2017	F	Serena Williams	4-6 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Coco Vandeweghe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 26, 2017	QF	Garbiñe Muguruza	6-4 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2017	R16	Angelique Kerber	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Eugenie Bouchard	6-4 3-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Pauline Parmentier	6-4 7-6(5)	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Roberta Vinci	6-1 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data