Good afternoon. Well, that was an exhausting, intriguing and sometimes brilliant way to get today’s quarter final action underway at Roland Garros. Congratulations to Tamara Zidanšek after she edged Paula Badosa 7-5 4-6 8-6. Next up, It’s Serena Williams’ conqueror, Elena Rybakina against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The winner of this will meet Zidanšek in the last four.
E. Rybakina vs A. Pavlyuchenkova | Roland-Garros
Women's Singles | Quarter-final | 08.06.2021 | Court Philippe-Chatrier
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E. Rybakina (21)
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A. Pavlyuchenkova (31)
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Updated 08/06/2021 at 15:39 GMT
RYBAKINA 4-1 PAVLYUCHENKOVA. Elena’s game is purring right now. She’s playing with the confidence of someone who took down the GOAT of women’s tennis in the last round. She consolidates and has a strong grip on the proceedings at present.
BREAK! – RYBAKINA 3-1 PAVLYUCHENKOVA. It’s the 21-year-old Kazakh starlet who strikes first! She she’s two of three break points saved by Anastasia but then gives the treatment to a poorly disguised serve and clouts away the crosscourt forehand winner.
RYBAKINA 2-1 PAVLYUCHENKOVA. These two are still working there way into this one. No real fireworks as of yet. No doubt plenty of nerves under the poker-like faces. The No.21 seed definitely has the weapons to do damage and she does enough once more to maintain the very early running.
RYBAKINA 1-1 PAVLYUCHENKOVA. No clear danger for Pavlyuchenkova as she plays the more consistent from the baseline to ease through her opening service game for the loss of one point.
RYBAKINA 1-0 PAVLYUCHENKOVA. At times that opener was far from pretty from Rybakina. She plays catch up to deuce as she saves a break point balancing some nervy errors with magnificent shot-making. Pavs pushes her on a second BP but the Russian-born Kazakhstani saves another and goes on to claim a hard-fought hold.
Meanwhile, Pavlyuchenkova or ‘Pavs’ as we like to call her, has taken down No.3 seed Aryna Sabalenka and two-time major champion Vika Azarenka on her run to the last eight in Paris.
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Highlights: Pavlyuchenkova overcomes Azarenka to reach quarter final
Rybakina produced the performance of her life to oust Serena and Mats Wilander was very impressed.