Anna Schmiedlova sweeps aside Valeria Savinykh 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Sunday after playing a superlative match to clash against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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Savinykh had a racing start in this set after breaking Schmiedlova in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the Slovakian managed to stage a great comeback to break the Russian 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
The Russian had no answers in the last 6 games of the set when the game count went from 0-1 to 6-1.
Anna Karolina converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 40-A), the 4th (2-1 0-40) and the 6th game (4-1 40-A and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, the Russian converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40) and the 5th game (1-3 30-40).
They contested 48 points. Anna Karolina conquered the set after winning 14 more points than Valeria (31-17). Schmiedlova dropped 8 points on serve (14-8). Regarding the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 17 points on serve (9-17).
Schmiedlova came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Savinykh in the 1st game (1-0). However, there was more work to do for the Slovakian to win the set since Valeria managed to break back in the 8th (3-5) game. Anna Karolina kept her focus to break Savinykh in the 9th (6-3) game.
The Slovakian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
They played 58 points. The Slovakian was the winner of the set after clinching 8 more points than Savinykh (33-25). Anna Karolina surrendered 12 points on serve (17-12). on the other side of the court, Valeria conceded 16 points on serve (13-16).
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Schmiedlova scored 63 points vs. Savinykh’s 43.
Anna Karolina was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she procured (6/9). On the other side, the Russian was not so effective in converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Schmiedlova and Savinykh is 1-0 for Anna Karolina.
Highlights Anna Schmiedlova vs. Valeria Savinykh Gippsland Trophy – Melbourne
Draw and next match H2H: Anna Schmiedlova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats
Schmiedlova will play Alexandrova in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Anna Schmiedlova and Ekaterina Alexandrova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Alexandrova won 6-3 1-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Trnava back in 2017.
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