Barbora Krejcikova aces Cori Gauff 7-6(6) 6-3 in the quarter in Paris on Wednesday. Krejcikova will fight against Maria Sakkari in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 4th round in 2020. Here you can see her history at this event.
Barbora added to her prize money € 120,000 after winning this match. She has won already € 375,000 as of now in this competition. If she wins the next match, Barbora will add € 375,000 to her earnings to get in total € 750,000.
Highlights Barbora Krejcikova vs. Cori Gauff French Open – Paris
Krejcikova’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Barbora scored 90 points vs. Gauff’s 73.
Krejcikova
Krejcikova didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she procured (4/6).
Gauff
On the other side, Gauff was struggling when converting her break points (only 30% – 3/10). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Krejcikova and Gauff is 1-0 for Barbora.
Draw and next match H2H: Barbora Krejcikova vs. Maria Sakkari – stats
Krejcikova will take on Sakkari in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Barbora Krejcikova and Maria Sakkari clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Krejcikova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Krejcikova won 6-2 7-64 in the 1st round in Dubai back in March 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Sakkari started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Krejcikova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, the Czech succeeded in coming back to break the American in the 5th (2-3) and in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 6.
Tiebreak
Barbora won 6 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (3-2), 8th (4-4), 12th (6-6), 13th (7-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, the American won 2 minibreaks in the 6th (3-3) and 10th (6-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 4-5, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
They played 104 points. The Czech conquered the set after winning 4 more points than Gauff (54-50). Barbora lost 25 points on serve (31-25). On the losing side, Gauff conceded 23 points on serve (25-23).
Krejcikova had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Sakkari in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Yet, there was more work to do for the Czech to win the set since Cori succeeded in breaking back in the 7th (2-5) game.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Krejcikova won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
The Czech lost 10 points on serve (17-10). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 16 points on serve (14-16).
Tennis Scores at the
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Cori GauffGauff (7-66 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-72 6-2 9-7) – Stats and score progression
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 4-6 8-6) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – H2H details and stats