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Dinara Safina #1 def. Victoria Azarenka #9

1-6 6-4 6-2

Match Information

Date	Jun 4, 2009*
Tournament	Roland Garros
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Clay
Round	QF
Winner	Dinara Safina
Score	1-6 6-4 6-2
Loser	Victoria Azarenka

Stat	Dinara Safina	Victoria Azarenka
Aces	2	0
Double faults	6	5
First serve %	63	79
First serve points won %	66	63
Second serve points won %	32	31
Break points saved %	29	50
Break points converted %	50	71
Service points won %	54	57
Return points won %	43	46
Total points won %	49	51

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Dinara Safina	Victoria Azarenka
Country	RUS	BLR
Birth date	Apr 27, 1986	Jul 31, 1989
Age	23	19
Height	182	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	1	9
Ranking points (entering)	9,801	4,526
Elo (entering)	2,101	2,018
Career W-L	299–160	575–266
Career earnings	$10,585,640	$38,890,473

Pre-match H2H

Dinara Safina 3 – 1 Victoria Azarenka

Path

Dinara Safina's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 2, 2009	R16	Aravane Rezai	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 2009	R32	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
May 28, 2009	R64	Vitalia Diatchenko	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
May 26, 2009	R128	Anne Keothavong	6-0 6-0	W	H2H	Match data

Dinara Safina's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 6, 2009	SF	Dominika Cibulkova	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Victoria Azarenka's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jun 2, 2009	R16	Ana Ivanovic	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
May 30, 2009	R32	Carla Suárez Navarro	5-7 7-5 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
May 28, 2009	R64	Kristina Barrois	7-6(1) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
May 26, 2009	R128	Roberta Vinci	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data