Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, ranked world number 45, will play Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus currently ranked 94th in the world in the second round of the 2020 French Open. This match will be played on Wednesday, September 30 and could begin at around 12.00 pm local time (11.00 am BST or 6 am Eastern Time). Get the live streaming options of this Caroline Garcia v Aliaksandra Sasnovich match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Caroline Garcia v Aliaksandra Sasnovich Head to Head
The pair have played each other three times before, and Garcia has won on each occasion. All those matches though were on hard courts – in Tokyo in 2017, and at Melbourne and New Haven in 2018.
The last two matches went to three sets.
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Garcia Gets Her Revenge over Kontaveit
Garcia enjoyed her best ever result at a Grand Slam by reaching the quarter-final at Roland Garros in 2017, and then reaching the fourth round the following year, and she will be hoping for another good run after upsetting the number 17 seed, Annett Kontaveit of Estonia, in their first-round match on Sunday.
In doing so, she gained immediate revenge for her defeat in the first round of the Italian Open at the hands of the same opponent less than two weeks earlier.
The first set was a close affair, with a single break of serve in the seventh game enough to enable Garcia to take the early advantage. The Estonian hit back though, breaking the Frenchwoman’s serve in the fourth game of the second set to level the match.
Garcia appeared in trouble when she dropped her serve again in the opening game of the third set, but a sequence of games in the middle of the set saw her re-establish parity at four games all. Garcia held her serve, and then engineered one final service break, securing the victory on her first match point.
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Sasnovich Makes Hard Work of Reaching Second Round
Sasnovich is into the second round in Paris for only the second time in her career, but she made very heavy weather of it in her first-round victory against Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany on Sunday.
It was a match strewn with errors and service breaks, and Sasnovich eventually won it because she dropped her serve the least!
The pattern was set right from the start, with the pair swapping service breaks in the first two games, but then the German dropped her serve twice more to hand Blinkova the first set.
However, it was Sasnovich’s turn to drop her serve at the start of the second set, and again in the seventh game, enabling the German to level the match.
A sequence of three games at the start of the third set saw first Friedsam, and then Sasnovich, and then Friedsam, lose their serve again. From there though, having finally got her nose in front, Sasnovich was able to close out the match with relative ease.
The 96th-ranked Sasnovich has shown good form on clay this season though, having reached the quarterfinal of the Palermo Open as a qualifier, and then done the same at the Istanbul Cup too.
Garcia v Sasnovich Prediction and Tip
Garcia would appear to hold all the aces in this match – she is the higher ranked player, she has a 100% record against her opponent, and, despite the limited number of fans, allowed, she has home court advantage.
Tip: Garcia to win in straight sets: 6/5 (bet365)
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