Athletistic / Tennis. Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Belgian Elise Mertens will meet in the quarter-finals of the women’s singles at the WTA tournament in Linz.
SPORT.RU invites you to a live online text broadcast of this meeting:
Tennis. WTA. Linz. Quarter-finals. Mertens – Pavlyuchenkova. Direct
With the end of the Australian Open, the WTA Tour is looking to other continents. This week a prestigious women’s tournament is taking place in Linz, Austria, in the 500 category. Three of the five Russians who were among the participants in the competition reached the quarterfinals. And at the moment, Ekaterina Alexandrova has already won a ticket to the semi-finals, defeating her compatriot Anastasia Potapova with a score of 6:2, 7:6. Katya can be accompanied by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who will meet Belgian Elise Mertens in the quarterfinals.
In personal meetings on the WTA circuit, our tennis player is in the lead with a score of 2:0. In the 2023 season, Anastasia beat Elise in the 1/8 finals of Roland Garros (3:6, 7:6, 6:3). And their first meeting took place in 2017. Then, at the tournament in Innsbruck, Pavlyuchenkova also won a voluntary victory – 3:6, 6:4, 6:1. Once again, tennis players met within the framework of the Federation Cup at the national team level, and it was in the same year 2017. Then Mertens won in straight sets 6:4, 6 :0.
At the Linz tournament, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is not seeded. At the same time, the Russian arrived in Austria as the 42nd racket in the world, and thanks to reaching the quarterfinals, she has already risen to 4 positions. As for Elise Mertens, the Belgian is seeded 4th in Linz. Our tennis player’s opponent is world number 26 and has currently moved up two places in the WTA rankings.
This is Pavlyuchenkova’s fourth tournament this season. In Auckland, the Russian lost in the first round (Anisimova), in Adelaide, Nastya reached the quarterfinals (Pegula), and at the Australian Open she lost to Badosa in the second round.
Mertens also has three tournaments under her belt during the 2024 season. If in Brisbane and Melbourne Elisa lost in the second round, then at the Hobart tournament the Belgian took part in the final, but lost to the American Navarro in three sets.
Tennis. WTA. Linz. Quarter-finals. Mertens – Pavlyuchenkova. Direct
Live online streaming of this match will begin at SPORT.RU February 2 no earlier than 8:45 p.m. Moscow time
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