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How American Sofia Kenin and Spaniard Garbine Muguruza match up ahead of their Australian Open final at Melbourne Park on Saturday night.
HOW SOFIA KENIN and GARBINE MUGURUZA MATCH UP AHEAD OF THEIR AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL ON SATURDAY NIGHT:
14-SOFIA KENIN (USA) leads GARBINE MUGURUZA (ESP) 1-0
2019 Beijing, hard, R64, Kenin 6-0 2-6 6-2
SOFIA KENIN
Age: 21
Born: Moscow, Russia
Lives: Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA
Ranking: 15
Career-high ranking: 12 (October 2019)
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money: $US2,959,382
Career titles: 3
Grand slam titles: 0
Career win-loss 198-113
Career grand slam record: 17-11
Australian Open win-loss record: 7-2
Best Australian Open result: finalist 2020
ROAD TO FINAL
1st rd: bt Martina Trevisan (ITA) 6-2 6-4
2nd rd: bt Ann Li (USA) 6-1 6-3
3rd rd: bt Zhang Shuai (CHN) 7-5 7-6 (7-5)
4th rd: bt Coco Gauff (USA) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-0
QF: bt Ons Jabeur (TUN) 6-4 6-4
SF: bt 1-Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 7-6 (8-6) 7-5
GARBINE MUGURUZA
Age: 26
Born: Caracas, Venezuela
Lives: Geneva, Switzerland
Ranking: 32
Career-high ranking: 1 (September 2017)
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money: $US19,270,804
Career titles: 7
Grand slam titles: 2 (French Open 2016, Wimbledon 2017)
Career win-loss record: 383-194
Career grand slam win-loss record: 72-26
Australian Open win-loss record: 23-7
Best Australian Open result: finalist 2020
ROAD TO FINAL
1st rd: bt Shelby Rogers (USA) 0-6 6-1 6-0
2nd rd: bt Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 6-3 3-6 6-3
3rd rd: bt 5-Elina Svitolina (UKR) 6-1 6-2
4th rd: bt 9-Kiki Bertens (NED) 6-3 6-3
QF: bt 30-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 7-5 6-3
SF: bt 4-Simona Halep (ROU) 7-6 (10-8) 7-5
