Magda Linette obliterates Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in Seoul on Monday after playing a remarkable match to fight against Anastasia Potapova in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Pole was too strong to concede just 1 game before breaking Irina-Camelia 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Irina-Camelia had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
2nd set.
Linette had a strong start of this set after breaking Begu in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Pole to win the set because the Romanian succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) and in the 8th (4-4) game. Linette maintained her cool to break the Romanian in the 9th (5-4) game before managing to win the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Pole scored 56 points vs. Irina-Camelia’s 36 points.
Linette was effective when converting 83% of the break points that she procured (5/6). On the other side, Irina-Camelia was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Linette and Begu is 1-0 for Magda.
Next Match: Magda Linette vs. Anastasia Potapova – stats
Linette will play Potapova in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Magda Linette and Anastasia Potapova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Potapova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Potapova won 1-6 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in Madrid back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Polona HercogHercog (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Na-Lae HanHan (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Priscilla HonHon – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Denisa AllertovaAllertova (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-4 3-6 7-63) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Timea BabosBabos – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Kristie AhnAhn – Timea BacsinszkyBacsinszky (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Danielle LaoLao (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Jessica PegulaPegula (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Ji-Hee ChoiChoi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-1) – See H2H details
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Timea BabosBabos (0-0) – See H2H details
- Priscilla HonHon – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – See H2H details
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Kristie AhnAhn (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details