HOBART RESULTS. Garbine Muguruza wins against Wang in the 1st round of the Hobart International

Garbine Muguruza gets by Yafan Wang 6-1 7-5 in the 1^st round in Hobart on Tuesday. Muguruza will face Ons Jabeur in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Muguruza started the set in the best possible way after breaking Wang in the 1^st game (1-0). Muguruza managed to boost her lead after breaking Yafan in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

The Chinese was powerless in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Wang came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Muguruza in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, the Spaniard managed to stage a good comeback to break the Chinese 4 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

There was an important spell in this match when the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 72 points vs. Wang’s 57 points.

The Spaniard was effective when converting 64% of the break points that she conquered (7/11). On the other side, Yafan was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Muguruza and Wang is 1-0 for Garbine.

Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Yafan Wang Hobart International – Hobart

Next Match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Ons Jabeur – stats

Muguruza will fight against Jabeur in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Garbine Muguruza and Ons Jabeur since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Hobart

• Lizette CabreraCabrera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (3-6 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Yafan WangWang (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (4-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Heather WatsonWatson – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (1-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Lin ZhuZhu (5-7 6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-6² 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Lauren DavisDavis – Astra SharmaSharma (6-3 3-6 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elise MertensMertens – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Heather WatsonWatson – Fiona FerroFerro (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Alize CornetCornet (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Lizette CabreraCabrera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Lauren DavisDavis (1-2) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-2) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details