Karolina Muchova topples Naomi Osaka 6-3 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday. Muchova will have to play Anastasia Potapova in the 3rd round. Her most significant achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Muchova added to her prize money $ 75,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 215,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Muchova will add $ 110,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 325,000 in total.
Highlights Karolina Muchova vs. Naomi Osaka U.S. Open – New York
Muchova’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
After this match, the head to head between Muchova and Osaka is 2-1 for Karolina.
Draw and next match H2H: Karolina Muchova vs. Anastasia Potapova – stats
Muchova will compete against Potapova in the 3rd round.
This will be the 4th time that Karolina Muchova and Anastasia Potapova face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Muchova (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Muchova won 7-64 6-2 in the 1st round in Montreal back in 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Muchova won the set after she broke Osaka in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Osaka was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-3 to 6-3.
The Czech was on the money in converting all her break points in the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). On the other side, Osaka wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 48 points. Muchova was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than the Japanese (28-20). Muchova dropped 5 points on serve (17-5). on the other side of the net, the Japanese conceded 11 points on serve (15-11).
Muchova won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 9th (4-5) game, Muchova broke back in the 10th (5-5) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that she won 7-5.
Naomi lost the 10th game (5-5) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.
Tiebreak
The Czech won 4 minibreaks in the 3rd (2-1), 7th (3-4), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, the Japanese won 2 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2) and 5th (3-2) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
Karolina converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (4-5 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Naomi converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 8th game (4-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 87 points. The contest during this set was so even that Karolina won just 1 point more than Osaka (44-43). Muchova lost 11 points on serve (25-11). on the other side of the net, Osaka conceded 19 points on serve (32-19).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Jessika PonchetPonchet – Elena RybakinaRybakina (w/o)
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-3 6-4)
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-5 7-5)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 7-64)
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (3-6 7-61 6-3)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Sofia KeninKenin (7-64 6-3)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Anna BondarBondar (6-2 6-4)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-3 7-65)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Ena ShibaharaShibahara (6-0 6-1)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0 ret.)
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (6-1 6-4)
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (5-7 6-1 6-2)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 6-4)
- Sara ErraniErrani – Caroline DolehideDolehide (7-5 7-5)
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (6-3 6-3)
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-1)
- Donna VekicVekic – Greetje MinnenMinnen (7-5 6-1)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Iva JovicJovic (4-6 6-4 7-5)
- Elise MertensMertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-3 6-2)
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-4 7-5)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-1 6-2)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Arantxa RusRus (6-1 6-1)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Harriet DartDart (7-610 6-1)
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-3 7-5)
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Clara BurelBurel (6-1 6-4)
- Cori GauffGauff – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-4 6-0)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Erika AndreevaAndreeva (6-73 6-1 6-2)
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-1 7-63)
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-4 6-0)
- Madison KeysKeys – Maya JointJoint (6-4 6-0)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-3 6-1)
- Yafan WangWang – Diane ParryParry (6-0 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sara ErraniErrani – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessika PonchetPonchet – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Yafan WangWang (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Cori GauffGauff (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Donna VekicVekic – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-3) – H2H details and stats