Auckland 2019: Tuesday's Order of Play and Match Points

CENTRE COURT
Starting at 3pm

Barbora STRYCOVA (CZE) [5] v Taylor TOWNSEND (USA)

Johanna LARSSON (SWE) v Julia GOERGES (GER) [2]

Victoria AZARENKA (BLR) v Venus WILLIAMS (USA) [6]

GRANDSTAND
Starting at 2pm

Sofia KENIN (USA) v Petra MARTIC (CRO) [4]

HSIEH Su-Wei (TPE) [3] v Polona HERCOG (SLO)

Lesley KERKHOVE (NED) / Sabrina SANTAMARIA (USA) v Eugenie BOUCHARD (CAN) / Sofia KENIN (USA)

[WC] Amanda ANISIMOVA (USA) v [Q] Jana CEPELOVA (SVK)

Timea BABOS (HUN) v [Q] Bianca ANDREESCU (CAN)

COURT 2
Starting at 2pm

Sachia VICKERY (USA) v Kirsten FLIPKENS (BEL) [7]

Alison VAN UYTVANCK (BEL) [8] v [Q] Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED)

Mona BARTHEL (GER) v [Q] Silvia SOLER-ESPINOSA (ESP)

Raluca OLARU (ROU) / Abigail SPEARS (USA) [1] v Alexandra PANOVA (RUS) / Laura SIEGEMUND (GER)

Monique ADAMCZAK (AUS) / Jessica MOORE (AUS) v Kaitlyn CHRISTIAN (USA) / Asia MUHAMMAD (USA) [3] 

MATCH POINTS

Schoofs is one half of the reigning doubles champions here; she won the title with Sara Errani last year, beating Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato 7-5, 6-1 in the final.

Goerges is the defending singles champion, having beating Caroline Wozniacki in the 2018 final.

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The German's only singles win against Larsson, however, came over a decade ago, on clay in Rome; their last three encounters have all been on hardcourts and the Swede has won each of them.

Williams and Azarenka have not met for four years. The Belarusian won their two most recent matches, in Madrid and Doha, both in 2015; Venus won the four matches before that, stretching back to 2008.