The two-time Grand Slam champion – Angelique Kerber – continues her sensational run at the Pan Pacific Open. Despite her lack of success in recent months, the 2013 runner-up is enjoying great success in Tokyo. Adding to this, Angelique reaches this stage of the competition after an impressive 7 – 6 7 – 5 win over Karolina Pliskova. Known as one of the greatest returners in the game, Kerber won 51.22% of the points on Pliskova’s second serve.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova couldn’t have asked for a better start to the Asian swing. Regardless of this Saturday’s outcome, the 26-year-old Russian already secured an unprecedented appearance in the Pan Pacific Open semi-finals. Taking a look now at Anastasia’s campaign on this event, the world no.23 reaches this stage of the competition after an outstanding comeback against Barbora Strycova.
This will be the 10th career meeting between these two players with Kerber leading on the h2h by 5 – 4.
As the h2h suggests, there isn’t much separating these two players. On the other hand, Pavlyuchenkova won their last encounter at the Monterrey Open earlier this season. With this in mind, the value is definitely on Anastasia’s tennis betting odds at 39/25 at Pinnacle while Kerber is available at 59/100 at 5Dimes. Besides the value on Pavlyuchenkova’s moneyline, placing a bet on the Over 21.5 at 47/50 at Pinnacle is also an interesting approach for this contest since we can’t see any of them winning this match in two easy sets.
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