French Open: Barbora Krejcikova Defeat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova To Win Final

French Open: Barbora Krejcikova Defeat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova To Win Final By Admin For the sixth straight year, Roland Garros plays host to a new Grand Slam champion as the unseeded Barbora Krejcikova defeated the more experienced Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Already a Grand Slam holder in doubles, this had been the year we had come to view her as a singles player beating (amongst others) Elina Svitolina, former finalist Sloane Stephens, Coco Gauff before a thrilling semi-final against Maria Sakkari. Not for the first time, she looked tight at the start of the match, losing her first game, and having to fight to break straight back, after which she reeled off six straight games to take the first set, leaving Pavlyuchenkova to have to figure out how to reset from playing very reactively, to being more proactive. Playing a lot more aggressively, and taking more risks, the Russian quickly leapt out to a 4-1 lead, but just as she was in the ascendency, a jarring injury saw her having to take a medical timeout, and with her movement hampered, she managed to close out the second set. Krejcikova was the first to break in the decider, but Pavlyuchenkova came right back at her, but the Czech has shown to be cool, calm and collected when it counts the most and she broke once more. She had two match points on the Russian’s serve, both saved, but made no mistake with the second on her own serve.