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Venus Williams #17 def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova #27

6-4 7-6(3)

Match Information

Date	Jan 26, 2017*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Venus Williams
Score	6-4 7-6(3)
Loser	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Stat	Venus Williams	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Aces	4	3
Double faults	1	9
First serve %	61	59
First serve points won %	57	59
Second serve points won %	59	32
Break points saved %	33	50
Break points converted %	50	67
Service points won %	58	48
Return points won %	52	42
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Country	USA	RUS
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Jul 3, 1991
Age	36	25
Height	185	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	17	27
Ranking points (entering)	2,240	1,620
Elo (entering)	1,841	1,807
Career W-L	768–288	415–324
Career earnings	$43,095,580	$16,114,597

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams 3 – 2 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	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 28, 2017	SF	Coco Vandeweghe	6-7(3) 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2017	R16	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Elina Svitolina	7-5 4-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Evgeniya Rodina	6-1 7-6(2)	W	H2H	Match data