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Victoria Azarenka #9 def. Lucie Safarova #43

7-5 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 2, 2009*
Tournament	Tokyo
Category	WTA 500
Surface	Hard
Round	R16
Winner	Victoria Azarenka
Score	7-5 6-4
Loser	Lucie Safarova

Stat	Victoria Azarenka	Lucie Safarova
Aces	1	5
Double faults	6	2
First serve %	63	64
First serve points won %	73	60
Second serve points won %	46	48
Break points saved %	67	56
Break points converted %	44	33
Service points won %	63	55
Return points won %	45	37
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Victoria Azarenka	Lucie Safarova
Country	BLR	CZE
Birth date	Jul 31, 1989	Feb 4, 1987
Age	20	22
Height	183	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	9	43
Ranking points (entering)	4,592	1,410
Elo (entering)	1,968	1,772
Career W-L	575–266	351–270
Career earnings	$38,890,473	$12,656,891

Pre-match H2H

Victoria Azarenka 2 – 0 Lucie Safarova

Path

Victoria Azarenka's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 1, 2009	R32	Jie Zheng	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Victoria Azarenka's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 3, 2009	QF	Na Li	6-7(7) 6-4 6-7(4)	L	H2H	Match data

Lucie Safarova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 1, 2009	R32	Shuai Peng	6-3 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 30, 2009	R64	Ana Ivanovic	6-4 7-6(1)	W	H2H	Match data