By Chris Oddo | Saturday February 5, 2017
Each week at Tennis Now, we’ll take a statistical look-back at the week that was. With Davis Cup, plus WTA events in Tapei and St. Petersburg there are plenty of numbers to crunch.
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Yulia Putintseva doubled her win total against the Top 10 with victories over No. 8 Svetlana Kuznetsova and No.5 Dominika Cibulkova en route to the St. Petersburg final, which was her first career WTA final. Her win over Cibulkova is her first Top 5 win (1-7 lifetime now).
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France's Kristina Mladenovic claims her first career title in her fourth final and will rise to No.31 in the rankings by defeating Putintseva in the final. Mladenovic has now reached a WTA final on all four surfaces.
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One of the biggest Davis Cup heroes of the weekend was Belgian’s Steve Darcis. The World No.59 improved to 20-8 in Davis Cup singles rubbers by defeating World No.29 Philipp Kohlschreiber on Friday and then World No.21 Alexander Zverev on Sunday to clinch Belgium’s 4-1 win over Germany. A strange fact about Darcis’ weekend: He beat two Top-30 players, and it marks the first time he has defeated a player ranked that high since he upset then No.5 Nadal at Wimbledon in 2013.
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Lucie Safarova turned 30 on the February 4th. These days it’s better to be in the thirtysomething club than not – should we expect a singles Slam title to go with her four doubles major titles soon?
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Francesca Schiavone’s farewell tour is not going well. The former Roland Garros champion has lost all three of her matches at the tour-level to players ranked outside the Top 100, and has dropped all six sets.
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Number of hours from first ball to last in Carlos Berlocq’s five-set win over Paolo Lorenzi in Buenos Aires on Sunday. The match itself lasted 4:14, it was the rain that wreaked havoc on the tie and forced the fifth rubber to be postponed until Monday.
Here's a breakdown of this weekend's World Group ties:
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Paolo Lorenzi’s error count in the match against Berlocq. It was rough sledding, as Berlocq turned in 70 unforced errors of his own.
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There have been just 10 comebacks from 0-2 down in World Group history. Argentina hopes to become the 11th team to achieve the feat on Monday when Guido Pella takes on Andreas Seppi in the fifth and deciding rubber in Buenos Aires.
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Belgium snapped a streak of eight straight losses and defeated Germany for the first time on Sunday in Frankfurt.