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Let's start with the dry numbers from this year. Mladenovic played 32 matches this year, out of which 14 were on clay. From the total number of matches, 18 went into an over 9.5 games in the first set (eight remained on nine games). On clay it was eight out of 14 matches. Stosur, on the other hand, has 23 matches behind her, nine on clay. In total she went 15 times over 9.5 games in the first set (four times it was on nine games). On clay it was four time in nine matches. Out of total 55 matches this year for both of them, only ten times their first sets didn't go round the number of nine games. Two head-to-heads ended with 10 games in the first set, and this week they've been serving very well in Strasbourg. Out of 61 game serves they lost a total of 10; so every sixth on average, and those are great numbers for women's tennis. Both have strong and uncomfortable serves, the strength and the kick on it, and I expect very few chances in the first set from both sides of the court.