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Svetlana Kuznetsova #8 def. Karolina Pliskova #3

7-6(5) 7-6(2)

Match Information

Date	Mar 18, 2017*
Tournament	Indian Wells
Category	WTA 1000
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Svetlana Kuznetsova
Score	7-6(5) 7-6(2)
Loser	Karolina Pliskova

Stat	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Karolina Pliskova
Aces	5	10
Double faults	2	3
First serve %	64	52
First serve points won %	67	72
Second serve points won %	57	47
Break points saved %	25	62
Break points converted %	38	75
Service points won %	63	60
Return points won %	40	37
Total points won %	51	49

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Svetlana Kuznetsova	Karolina Pliskova
Country	RUS	CZE
Birth date	Jun 27, 1985	Mar 21, 1992
Age	31	24
Height	174	186
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	8	3
Ranking points (entering)	3,915	5,640
Elo (entering)	1,915	1,988
Career W-L	580–319	421–241
Career earnings	$25,816,890	$26,944,237

Pre-match H2H

Svetlana Kuznetsova 1 – 1 Karolina Pliskova

Path

Svetlana Kuznetsova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 17, 2017	QF	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 15, 2017	R16	Caroline Garcia	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2017	R32	Roberta Vinci	6-2 2-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 11, 2017	R64	Johanna Larsson	7-6(3) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Svetlana Kuznetsova's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 19, 2017	F	Elena Vesnina	7-6(6) 5-7 4-6	L	H2H	Match data

Karolina Pliskova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Mar 17, 2017	QF	Garbiñe Muguruza	7-6(2) 7-6(5)	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 15, 2017	R16	Timea Bacsinszky	5-1 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 13, 2017	R32	Irina-Camelia Begu	6-4 7-6(2)	W	H2H	Match data
Mar 11, 2017	R64	Monica Puig	1-6 6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data