Pavljutjenkova till final – första på 52 turneringar

Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova (born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won two junior Grand Slam titles and became the junior world No. 1, in January 2006, at the age of 14. She continued her success after turning professional, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 13 on 4 July 2011. Pavlyuchenkova has been continuously ranked inside the top 50 since 3 November 2008, when she entered the top-50 rankings for the first time in her career (a span of more than 12 years) and has maintained a consistent top-30 ranking since first reaching the milestone in early 2010. Between the 2008 French Open and the 2020 Australian Open, she participated in 48 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments, which is tied with Ana Ivanovic for the eighth-longest streak of consecutive Grand Slam tournament appearances in history. Pavlyuchenkova has won 12 singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as five singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her biggest singles titles to date have come at two Premier-level tournaments, the 2014 Open GDF Suez and the 2014 Kremlin Cup. She reached her first Grand Slam final at the 2021 French Open, having previously reached six other Grand Slam quarterfinals at the 2011 French Open, the 2011 US Open, the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2017, 2019 and 2020 Australian Opens. Pavlyuchenkova has enjoyed significant success in doubles as well, achieving a career-high ranking of No. 21 on 16 September 2013, reaching a total of six quarterfinals across all four Grand Slams (at the Australian Open in 2013, the French Open in 2013 and 2021, Wimbledon in 2014, and the US Open in 2015 and 2018) as well as winning one Premier Mandatory title at the 2013 Madrid Open with Lucie Šafářová.

Barbora Krejčíková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbarbora ˈkrɛjtʃiːkovaː]; born 18 December 1995) is a Czech professional tennis player. Krejčíková has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33, reached on 31 May 2021, and on 22 October 2018, she became world No. 1 in the WTA doubles rankings.