Bianca Vanessa Andreescu victorious over Taylor Townsend 6-1 4-6 6-2 in the 4th round in New York on Monday. Andreescu will face off with Elise Mertens in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Andreescu started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Townsend in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nevertheless, there was more to do for Andreescu to win the set as Taylor found the way to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. Bianca Vanessa kept her cool to break Townsend in the 6th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when the Canadian won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
2nd set.
Townsend had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Andreescu in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, there was more to do for the American to win the set as Andreescu found the way to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. Taylor kept her cool to break the Canadian in the 10th (6-4) game.
3rd set.
Andreescu was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Townsend in the 1st game (1-0). Andreescu extended her lead after breaking Townsend in the 5th (4-1) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Bianca Vanessa missed the opportunity to break Townsend in the 7th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Bianca Vanessa scored 92 points vs. Townsend’s 72 points.
Bianca Vanessa won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, the American was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 38% of her break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Andreescu and Townsend is 1-0 for Bianca Vanessa.
Highlights Bianca Vanessa Andreescu vs. Taylor Townsend U.S. Open – New York
Next Match: Bianca Vanessa Andreescu vs. Elise Mertens – stats
Andreescu will square off with Mertens in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Bianca Vanessa Andreescu and Elise Mertens since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in New York |
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Tennis Scores at the US Open
- Donna VekicVekic – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-75 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-1 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Kristie AhnAhn (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-71 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Madison KeysKeys (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Ashleigh BartyBarty (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – See H2H details
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Johanna KontaKonta (3-0) – See H2H details
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Qiang WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
