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Venus Williams #41 def. Andrea Petkovic #182

5-7 6-4 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 20, 2012*
Tournament	Luxembourg
Category	WTA 250
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Venus Williams
Score	5-7 6-4 6-4
Loser	Andrea Petkovic

Stat	Venus Williams	Andrea Petkovic
Aces	6	2
Double faults	15	2
First serve %	52	74
First serve points won %	71	57
Second serve points won %	40	50
Break points saved %	64	54
Break points converted %	46	36
Service points won %	56	55
Return points won %	45	44
Total points won %	51	49

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Andrea Petkovic
Country	USA	GER
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Sep 9, 1987
Age	32	25
Height	185	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	41	182
Ranking points (entering)	1,370	341
Elo (entering)	1,993	1,867
Career W-L	768–288	273–225
Career earnings	$43,095,580	$8,829,248

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams 1 – 1 Andrea Petkovic

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 20, 2012	QF	Roberta Vinci	7-6(2) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 19, 2012	R16	Mona Barthel	7-6(4) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 2012	R32	Belinda Bencic	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data

Venus Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 21, 2012	F	Monica Niculescu	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Andrea Petkovic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 20, 2012	QF	Ksenia Pervak	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 19, 2012	R16	Jelena Jankovic	7-5 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 18, 2012	R32	Garbiñe Muguruza	4-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data