How do you protect a weakness, or hide a strength? Certainly not on a stat sheet.
The Roland Garros women’s semifinals are set, with two high seeds clashing in one match and two delightful surprises battling it out in the other. We have spent almost two weeks watching these four players advance through the draw. What do they do well? Where are they susceptible?
The statistics have the answers.
Jelena Ostapenko vs. No. 30 Timea Bacsinszky
Through five matches, the unseeded Ostapenko has amassed 195 winners. That equates to 13 per set.