{"id":17161,"date":"2021-09-07T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=146807"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:14:37","slug":"us-open-pliskova-reaches-the-quarterfinals-by-keeping-pavlyuchenko-at-bay-in-the-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/us-open-pliskova-reaches-the-quarterfinals-by-keeping-pavlyuchenko-at-bay-in-the-fourth-round\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Pliskova reaches the quarterfinals by keeping Pavlyuchenko at bay in the fourth round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Republic\u2019s Karolina Pliskova showcased a strong defensive performance to end Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova campaign 7-5 6-4 in the round of sixteen at the U.S. Open today so that she can keep on track her bid for a maiden major title.The fourth-seeded tennis player had fired seven forehand winners and converted the breakpoints in the final game of the first set, before defending six of Pavlyuchenkova\u2019s seven break point advantages in the second set inside the Grandstand arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Impressive stuff from Karolina Pliskova.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 4 seed is into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USOpen<\/a> quarterfinals! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qPziiEgarV\">pic.twitter.com\/qPziiEgarV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1435028450616688645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The world number four and the runner up in this year\u2019s Wimbledon has put up an amazing 58 aces so far at the US Open this year which is by far the most of any of the remaining players left in the tournament and next faces the winner of the Greek Maria Sakkari and the Canadian Bianca Andreescu\u2019s match in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>Former World No.1 Pliskova who was also a US Open runner-up in 2016 has reached the last eight stages at the US Open for the fourth time in her career with her 95-minute win over this year\u2019s Roland Garros runner-up Pavlyuchenkova. Pliskova has been able to balance the head to head as she lost the last two matches against Pavlyuchenkova.<\/p>\n<p>Pliskova said afterwards that she was super happy with the match because she lost the last two matches against her and it was important for her to get the win today. Pliskova continued by saying that somehow she played better than the Russian did and put pressure on her serve and managed to get some breakpoints today due to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Republic\u2019s Karolina Pliskova showcased a strong defensive performance to end Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova campaign 7-5 6-4 in the round of sixteen at the U.S. Open today so that she can keep on track her bid for a maiden major title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":37907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1786,1436,2184,2689,2606],"class_list":["post-17161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-anastasia-pavlyuchenkova","tag-bianca-andreescu","tag-karolina-pilskova","tag-maria-sakaari","tag-us-open-2021"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}