An intriguing match-up between world No. 9 Angelique Kerber and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is scheduled to take place Friday afternoon in the quarter-final stage of the Paris Open. The two competitors have met four times on the WTA tour, with the head-to-head series tied at 2-2 dating back to their first meeting in 2013.
After receiving a first round bye, Germany’s Angelique Kerber posted a 6-2, 7-5 triumph over Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic to arrive at the quarter-finals in Paris. The world No. 9 has some slight issues closing out the match in the second set but eventually prevailed to set up the fascinating encounter with Pavlyuchenkova. A champion in Paris two years back, Kerber will be looking to replicate her efforts from 2012 and will need to get past the world No. 26 to edge closer to that goal.
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