Na Li and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will meet today for a highly anticipated quarter-final clash at the WTA New Haven OpenYou can watch & bet on the action from the WTA New Haven Open at bet365Na Li got her second round showdown against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova finished in straight sets on Wednesday night, though the victory was anything but straightforward. The second seed had only won five more points than Kirilenko at the end of play, and had to pull back from 4-1 down in the first set. The match eventually finished 6-4, 7-6(4) in Li’s favour.
The French Open champion is now set to take on Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for a place in the semi-finals. Pavlyuchenkova is the eighth seed this week, and she blazed through to the last eight by recording a superb 6-2, 6-4 win against Roberta Vinci of Italy. Vinci has been playing very well this year, and the margin of Pavlyuchenkova’s victory outlines Pavlyuchenkova’s status as a dark horse here.
Pavlyuchenkova will enter this matchup with a 1-0 head to head record against Li. The Russian’s sole success over the world No. 7 occurred at Wimbledon in 2007 (6-2, 6-4). Whilst this bodes well for the 20 year-old, Li’s achievements this season suggest that she might be able to level her record against Pavlyuchenkova today.
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