Wanted to take a quick look at Francesca Schiavone vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova betting at the US Open for the fourth round on Monday. These two will likely be playing for the right to face Serena Williams in the quarter finals, and while they will have one eye on that, this looks as if it will be a fascinatingly close match. Francesca Schiavone, a French Open champion in 2010, and finalist there this year is so unpredictably hit and miss you never know what to do with her in her betting. Clearly clay courts are her forte, but has an incredible work rate around the baseline which just keeps her hanging around in matches. She does also like to get into the net to upset opponents and because there rarely looks as if she has any cohesive game plan, looking more like she is playing on her wits, she is hard to call. She has a great passion for the game, and thrills a lot of fans because she just never gives up. She does not have the all round skill sets of the likes of Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clijsters by any stretch of the imagination, and she doesn’t have the power of the likes of Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams. But she does what she does to scrap and because she is unorthodox on court, it wins her games. She is just as prone to crashing out to an outsider as she is, causing one of the top seeds above her a lot of problems. She is seeded 7th at Flushing Meadows and not attracting a lot of attention. She had to show that famed grit when she dropped the first set against Chanelle Scheepers in the third round and only just held on in a second set tie break. But that is what Schiavone does, so that is why Francesca Schiavone vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova betting makes for a very interesting fourth round match up.
Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is worth backing in your US Open tennis betting. We speak about her a lot on these pages, and we tipped her as underdog in the third round against Jelena Jankovic. She powered her way through that match, which was pretty competitive, to set up a fourth round clash against Schiavone. Now, Pavlyuchenkova is a just one of those great dark horses in tournaments. She hit a rich vein of form earlier in the year, and looking to replicate that now. She will always fly under the radar as well in tournaments, and with just a little more experience and consistency, will be a major force in a year or two. So where is Francesca Schiavone vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova betting standing. Well, we are going to stick with the Russian here, even though Schiavone will be favourite. There really is unlikely to be too much between them. Schiavone is probably going to be a little better around the court and taking initiative moving in, while Pavlyuchenkova will have the upper hand with her very good and dangerous serving power. Compare Pavlyuchenkova of 2011 to Pavlyuchenkova of 2010 and you have a much more mature player, who will likely show up more and more in the latter stages of Grand Slam tournaments. Coming through in straight sets against the finesse of Jelena Jankovic should have given her a great boost, while Schiavone generally seems to make life hard for herself. Still, finishing off Schiavone is such a very difficult thing to do. But, the young Russian is who we shall hedge our bets on.
Francesca Schiavone vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Head to Head
Well there have been four meetings between then, three of them having been won by Schiavone. It was Schiavone who knocked Pavlyuchenkova out in the French Open, but she was pushed hard. The Russian crushed her 6-1 in the first set, and Schiavone won the next two sets 7-5 to edge through. That was the second of two meetings on clay between them, with the Italian winning both. Pavlyuchenkova picked up her victory on hard court in 2010 in Miami. Pavlyuchenkova has a 32/16 match record for the season and one title, with Schiavone a 30/18 match record with no titles.
Francesca Schiavone vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Betting Odds
Pavlyuchenkova to win: 3/4 at SportingBet
Schiavone to win: 23/20 at Boylesports
