MELBOURNE RESULTS. Immense Muguruza grounds Svitolina in the 3rd round

Garbine Muguruza vanquishes Elina Svitolina 6-1 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Melbourne on Saturday after playing a good match to fight against Kiki Bertens in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Muguruza was too good to concede just 1 game before breaking Elina 2 times and win the set 6-1.

The Ukrainian was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Garbine in this set was much more effective than Svitolina and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking Svitolina in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 61 points vs. Elina’s 36 points.

Garbine served extremely well to win 84% of the points (21/25) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (12/20) on her second serve. The Spaniard won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points as she converted only 31% (4/13). On the other side, Svitolina wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this encounter, the head to head between Muguruza and Svitolina is 5-6 for Elina.

Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Elina Svitolina Australian Open – Melbourne

Muguruza’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Kiki Bertens – stats

Muguruza will face Bertens in the 4^th round.

This will be the 4^th time that Garbine Muguruza and Kiki Bertens square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Muguruza won 5-7 6-1 6-4 in the 4^th round in Indian Wells back in 2019.

Tennis Scores at the

• Simona HalepHalep – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (6-1 6-7⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Madison KeysKeys (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Serena WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-7² 7-5) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Petra KvitovaKvitova (2-1) – See H2H details
• Cori GauffGauff – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (0-2) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details