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L-W-L Svitolina meets R64P15 in Beijing's Round of 64

Elina Svitolina brings an L-W-L run into a Beijing Round of 64 meeting with R64P15 that has no recent head-to-head history.

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Beijing

Beijing

TENNIS/Round of 64
Brad Drewett CourtBeijing
KICK-OFF06:10SAT03/10
R64P15
R64P15
VS
Elina Svitolina
Elina Svitolina

Recent form

Elina SvitolinaLWLElina Svitolina: L-W-L in the last 3 games.
Elina Svitolina 0-2 Linda NoskovaJasmine Paolini 0-2 Elina SvitolinaElina Svitolina 1-2 Greet Minnen

The Round of 64 in Beijing puts Elina Svitolina against R64P15 on October 2, and the form line does the talking. Svitolina's last three matches read L-W-L: a 1-2 defeat to Greet Minnen on September 24, a 2-0 win over Jasmine Paolini on September 26, then a 0-2 loss to Linda Noskova on September 27. That inconsistency frames this opener.

Head to head

With no shared history to consult, this is a first-read matchup. R64P15 arrives with no recent games logged, so the known quantity is Svitolina — and the question is which version shows up: the one that swept Paolini or the one that fell in straight sets to Noskova.

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  • Svitolina comes off a loss to Linda Noskova, beaten 0-2 on September 27, her second defeat in three matches.
  • Her lone recent win was a 2-0 dismissal of Jasmine Paolini on September 26, wedged between defeats to Minnen and Noskova.
  • With no recent head-to-head meetings, the opening set becomes the first real read on how these two match up.

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