By Chris Oddo | Thursday February 15, 2018
Petra Kvitova is on a 10-match tear and is primed for the quarterfinals in Doha. This and more in by the numbers.
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Keeping up with the game of tennis, by the numbers. Each day at Tennis Now we’ll give you a fresh set—without any further ado, here’s today’s sampling:
10
Petra Kvitova stretched her WTA-best winning streak to 10 matches with a straight-sets victory over Elina Svitolina in Doha. The Czech is now 7-1 against Svitolina and will face Julia Goerges in the quarterfinal.
18
With her victory over Monica Niculescu, Caroline Wozniacki passed Agnieszka Radwanska for the all-time lead in wins at Doha. The Dane also assured herself a shot at the WTA’s top ranking, but she will lose the top spot in Simona Halep outperforms her by one round in Doha.
Wozniacki also improve to 9-0 against Niculescu with the win.
62-69
Roger Federer has won 62 of 69 first serve points and pitched in 17 aces in his first two rounds at Rotterdam. He has yet to face a break point.
4-0
Andrey Rublev improve to 4-0 lifetime against Damir Dzumhur with a 6-4, 7-6(4) win over the World No.29. The 20-year-old Russian will face Grigor Dimitrov on Friday in a rematch if their third-round match at the Australian Open. Rublev did upset Dimitrov at last year’s U.S. Open en route to the quarterfinals. The pair have split their two previous meetings.
1
18-year-old American CiCi Bellis got her first career Top 5 win with a victory over defending champion Karolina Pliskova in Doha. It was her fourth match against a Top 5 opponent, including a 6-1, 6-1 shellacking at the hands of Pliskova at Brisbane this season.
9-0
Roger Federer’s record in 2018. The Swiss now owns a career record of 1141-1250. He is only 115 win behind Jimmy Connor’s all-time record of 1256.