Karolina Muchova bests Mertens in the 4th round of the Australian Open. HIGHLIGHTS, INTERVIEW – AUSTRALIAN OPEN RESULTS

Karolina Muchova downs Elise Mertens 7-6(5) 7-5 in the 4^th round in Melbourne on Monday in what was an all- match. Muchova will face off with Ashleigh Barty in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 56 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 2^nd round in 2020. Here you can see her history at this event.

Melbourne

Muchova's Record

Muchova added to her prize money $ 205,000 after conquering this match. She has won already $ 525,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Muchova will add $ 325,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 850,000 in total.

Muchova was elated about how things unfolded. She commented:

“To be able to have a chance against him, you have to be playing extremely well. You have to be playing aggressive tennis, I think, being the one that dominates.

You know, I’m looking forward to the challenge. I think it’s one of the toughest challenges in our sport to be playing Novak at this Grand Slam in later rounds.”

Highlights Karolina Muchova vs. Elise Mertens Australian Open – Melbourne

Muchova’s Interview

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Muchova

Mertens

7-6⁵ 7-5
1h:56

78

78

Total points

68

68

35

35

Winners

33

33

45%

45%

Ratio Winners

49%

49%

31

31

Unforced

30

30

51%

51%

Ratio Unforced

49%

49%

13/21

13/21

Net Approaches

8/10

8/10

62%

62%

Perc

80%

80%

-- Serve --

4

4

Aces

2

2

1

1

Double Faults

2

2

73%

73%

1st in

68%

68%

67%

67%

1st won

65%

65%

35/52

35/52

1st won

33/51

33/51

42%

42%

2nd won

29%

29%

8/19

8/19

2nd won

7/24

7/24

184

184

Fastest serve

184

184

168

168

AVG 1^st Serve

160

160

135

135

AVG 2^nd Serve

133

133

-- Break Points --

5/6

5/6

Total

4/6

4/6

83%

83%

Won

67%

67%

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At the end of the match, Muchova scored 78 points vs. Elise’s 68.

Muchova

Muchova was pretty effective at converting 83% of the break points that she conquered (5/6).

Mertens

On the other side, Mertens was effective when converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (4/6). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Muchova and Mertens is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Karolina Muchova vs. Ashleigh Barty – stats

Muchova will face Barty in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Karolina Muchova and Ashleigh Barty clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Barty (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Barty won 6-3 6-4 in the 3^rd round in New York back in 2018.

Live score progression and stats

Barty started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Muchova in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, Muchova managed to stage a good comeback to break Mertens 3 times in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (3-5) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

An important stage of this set was when Karolina won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the score from 2-5 to 6-5. Notwithstanding also Elise won 4 consecutive games from 0-0 to 4-0

Tiebreak

Karolina won 4 minibreaks in the 2^nd (2-0), 6^th (3-3), 7^th (4-3) and 12^th (7-5) point. On the other side, Elise won 2 minibreaks in the 4^th (2-2) and 5^th (3-2) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 7-c

Muchova was spot on in converting all her break points in the 6^th (1-4 15-40), the 8^th (2-5 0-40) and the 10^th game (4-5 30-40). On the other side, Elise converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had her opportunities in the 1^st (0-0 30-40), the 3^rd (2-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7^th game (4-2 15-40 and 30-40).

They contested 77 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Karolina won just 1 point more than Elise (39-38). Karolina lost 18 points on serve (20-18). In addition, on the other side, Mertens conceded 19 points on serve (20-19).

Muchova started the set strong after breaking Barty in the 1^st game (1-0). However, that wasn’t sufficient for Karolina to win the set as Mertens found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Karolina kept her cool to break Elise in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Muchova converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 1^st (0-0 0-40), the 5^th (2-2 40-A) and the 11^th game (5-5 15-40). On the other side, Elise was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 4^th game (1-2 15-40).

They contested 69 points. Karolina was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Mertens (38-31). Muchova lost 10 points on serve (22-10). In addition, on the other side, Mertens conceded 16 points on serve (21-16).

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• Jessica PegulaPegula – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Shelby RogersRogers (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Elise MertensMertens (7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats and score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (3-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (4-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-1) – H2H details and stats
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Serena WilliamsWilliams (2-1) – H2H details and stats