CENTER COURT
Play starts at 12 noon
Madison KEYS (USA) [5] v Angelique KERBER (GER) [4]
Not before 1:30pm
[WC] Misaki DOI (JPN) v Anastasia PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS)
PLAY CANCELLED FOR THE DAY
MATCH POINTS
Angelique Kerber holds an 8-2 lead in the career head-to-head against Madison Keys. On the two occasions the American has won, the match has gone the distance.
The German has los four of her last five matches against Top 20 players, although only one of these has been on a hard court. She has a 2-2 record against such women in 2019 on such surfaces.
Wildcard Misaki Doi has won her only previous match with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She was 6-7(3), 6-4, 3-1 when the Russian had to retire in Wuhan 2016.
Pavlyuchenkova, a finalist in 2017, has beaten Dayana Yastremska and Kiki Bertens to reach the last eight – just the fourth time in 2019 she has won consecutive matches.
WTA World No.36 Yulia Putintseva has a perfect 3-0 winning record against Naomi Osaka. Her two 2019 victories both came on grass – in Birmingham and at Wimbledon – but she also won their clash in Hobart in 2018. She has not lost a set to the two-time major winner.
Osaka has won eight of her last 10 matches against players ranked between 20 and 40 on the WTA Ranking.
Camila Giorgi and Elise Mertens have never played previously.
The Italian has won 11 of her last 14 singles matches since Wimbledon, while Mertens is in action for the first time since pushing eventual winner Bianca Andreescu to three sets at the US Open.
