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Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is gradually returning to the tour after a long break, but so far her performance is expected to be weak.
This season, she immediately lost at the Adelaide tournament, then in the first round she lost at the Australian Open and the Dubai tournament. Three defeats in three matches, then again a break before the Madrid Masters, where Anastasia scored the first win of the season against Moldovan Kasintseva, but again there was a loss – from compatriot Daria Kasatkina to second round. In Rome, the same story happened – a victory in the first round over the Italian Errani and immediately beaten by Iga Sventek in the second. In Strasbourg, just before Roland-Garros, Pavlyuchenkova soared and won two matches before losing in the quarter-finals to the American Davich. And already at Roland Garros, Pavlyuchenkova won her fifth game of the season, beating the Czech Linda Fruhvirtova.
In the second round, Pavlyuchenkova has a more serious opponent – another Russian woman, Lyudmila Samsonova, 15th in the WTA ranking.
But you also have to understand that the floor is not the best surface for Samsonova, for the first time in her career she passed the first round.
In Rome this season, she, like Pavlyuchenkova, reached the 1/16 finals, in Madrid – up to 1/8. Samsonova will still be the favorite going into this showdown, but Pavlyuchenkova will at least have a chance to hang on to the set, maxed out – to win and reach the third round.
Tennis. Roland Garros. Second turn. Samsonov – Pavlyuchenkov. Direct
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