Relentless Muguruza wins the Dubai Duty Free Championships. HIGHLIGHTS, INTERVIEW – DUBAI RESULTS

Garbine Muguruza bests Barbora Krejcikova 7-6(6) 6-3 in the final in Dubai on Saturday. The battle lasted 2 hours and 8 minutes. This is the first time that the Spaniard conquered this tournament. Her best achievement in this tournament so far was reaching the semifinal. Here you can see when her history at this event.

Dubai

Muguruza's Record

Garbine added $ 57,500 to her prize money after winning this final. She has earned $ 221,500 in total after winning this tournament.

Muguruza was glad about the outcome of the contest. She commented:

“It means a lot, it’s never easy to win titles. It doesn’t happen often, and I’m excited that it happened now, after a few finals that didn’t go my way. A nice relief to be able to hold a champion’s trophy.”

Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Barbora Krejcikova Dubai Duty Free Championships – Dubai

Muguruza’s Interview

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Muguruza

Krejcikova

7-6⁶ 6-3
2h:08

85

85

Total points

78

78

37

37

Winners

26

26

44%

44%

Ratio Winners

33%

33%

-- Serve --

7

7

Aces

1

1

1

1

Double Faults

3

3

66%

66%

1st in

55%

55%

65%

65%

1st won

62%

62%

37/57

37/57

1st won

26/42

26/42

53%

53%

2nd won

53%

53%

16/30

16/30

2nd won

18/34

18/34

-- Break Points --

4/9

4/9

Total

2/9

2/9

44%

44%

Won

22%

22%

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At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 85 points vs. the Czech’s 78.

Muguruza

Garbine won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points after she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.

Krejcikova

On the other side, Krejcikova was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 22% – 2/9). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

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

This was the 8^th career title for Muguruza. (see list of the title).

Live score progression and stats

Krejcikova had a racing start in this set after breaking Muguruza in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Garbine refused to bow to come back to break the Czech in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 6^th (4-2) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 6.

Muguruza wasted a good opportunity to break Krejcikova in the 12^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Tiebreak

Muguruza won 3 minibreaks in the 12^th (6-6), 13^th (7-6) and 14^th (8-6) point. On the other side, the Czech won a minibreak in the 11^th (6-5) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6

They played 84 points. This set was so close that, The Spaniard won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. Garbine lost 17 points on serve (28-17). on the other side of the net, the Czech conceded 14 points on serve (25-14).

Muguruza commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking in the 1^st game (1-0). The Spaniard managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Barbora in the 9^th (6-3) game before conquering the set.

Barbora lost the 1^st game (1-0) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.

They played 59 points. Muguruza won 11 points more than the Czech (35-24). Garbine lost 9 points on serve (19-9). In addition, on the other side, Krejcikova conceded 16 points on serve (15-16).