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INSIDER ANALYSIS : PLISKOVA LEADS STAT GAME AHEAD OF AUSTRALIAN OPEN QF

Published January, 23, 2017

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MELBOURNE, Australia - The quarterfinals are set for the Australian Open, with
a slate that features a mixture of veterans, up-and-comers, and proven champ-
ions.

Tuesday:
No.7 Garbine Muguruza vs. No.35 CoCo Vandeweghe
No.17 Venus Williams vs. No.27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Wednesday:
No.5 Karolina Pliskova vs. No. 79 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni
No.2 Serena Williams vs. No.9 Johanna Konta

Before the quarterfinal round begins on Tuesday. let's take a look inside the
numbers to see how the Final Eight stack up.

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Notable stats:

- Konta has been broken just twice in the tournament and has faced just 9
break points.

- Muguruza and Venus are doing well to protect their second serves.

- Muguruza and Vandeweghe have been the most efficient on break point conver-
sions.

- Pliskova is breaking serve in over half of her return games.

- Pliskova has served a tournament leading 45 aces to just 10 double-faults.
Compare that to Vandeweghe, who has served 30 aces to 24 double-faults.

Here's a full run-down:

Aces (Double-faults)
1. Pliskova - 45 (10)
2. Serena - 31 (17)
3. Vandeweghe - 30 (24)
4. Konta - 25 (7)
5. Muguruza - 14 (5)

Service Games - % Won
1. Konta - 94% (34/36)
2. Muguruza - 85% (33/39)
3. Pliskova - 83% (33/40)
4. Serena - 82% (32/39)
5. Lucic-Baroni - 80% (36/45)

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Unreturned serves
1. Serena - 40%
2. Pliskova - 39%
3. Vandeweghe - 36%
4. Muguruza - 33%
5. Konta - 32%

1st Serve - % Won
1. Pliskova - 83%
2. Konta - 80%
3. Vandeweghe - 79%
4. Serena - 77%
5. Muguruza - 73%

2nd Serve - % Won
1. Muguruza - 60%
2. Venus - 59%
3. Konta - 54%
4. Vandeweghe - 50%
5. Serena - 48%

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Break Points - % Saved
1. Konta - 78% (7/9)
2. Venus - 73% (16/22)
3. Lucic-Baroni - 72% (23/32)
4. Muguruza - 68% (13/19)
5. Vandeweghe - 67% (14/21)

Break Points - % Won
1. Muguruza - 63% (17/27)
2. Vandeweghe - 58% (15/26)
3. Konta - 50% (15/30)
4. Serena - 49% (17/35)
5. Pavlyuchenkova - 47% (20/43)

Returns - % In
T-1. Konta - 79%
T-1. Venus - 79%
3. Pliskova - 78%
4. Serena - 74%
5. Lucic-Baroni - 72%

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Returns - % Won Off 1st Serve
1. Venus - 47%
T-2. Serena - 41%
T-2. Pliskova - 41%
T-4. Konta - 39%
T-4. Pavlyuchenkova - 39%

Returns - % Won off 2nd Serve
1. Pliskova - 65%
2. Lucie-Baroni - 62%
3. Konta - 60%
4. Muguruza - 59%
5. Serena - 55%

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Return Games - % Won
1. Pliskova - 57% (23/40)
T-2. Pavlyuchenkova - 49% (20/41)
T-2. Venus - 49% (18/37)
4. Serena - 46% (17/37)
T-5. Konta - 43% (15/35)
T-5. Muguruza - 43% (17/40)

Baseline Points - % Won
1. Muguruza - 58%
2. Venus - 57%
3. Lucic-Baroni - 55%
4. Konta - 54%
5. Pliskova - 53%

Net Points - % Won
1. Pavlyuchenkova - 83% (44/53)
2. Pliskova - 80% (43/54)
3. Serena - 79% (44/56)
4. Muguruza - 75% (24/32)
5. Vandeweghe - 70% (47/67)


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