Timea Babos extinguishes Jaqueline Cristian 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Seoul on Sunday after playing a solid match to come up against Jelena Ostapenko in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Babos in this set was in much better shape than the Romanian and therefore she won 6-2 after breaking the Romanian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
2nd set.
The Hungarian in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Cristian and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking Jaqueline in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Timea scored 65 points vs. Cristian’s 43 points.
Babos served very well to win 83% of the points (19/23) behind her first serve, and she won 64% points (14/22) on her second serve. The Hungarian won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Cristian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Babos and Cristian is 1-0 for Timea.
Next Match: Timea Babos vs. Jelena Ostapenko – stats
Babos will square off with Ostapenko in the 1st round.
This will be the 4th time that Timea Babos and Jelena Ostapenko fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ostapenko won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Miami back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Danielle LaoLao – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Sohyun ParkPark (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Timea BabosBabos – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Priscilla HonHon – Destanee AiavaAiava (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (0-1) – See H2H details
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – See H2H details
- Timea BabosBabos – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-2) – See H2H details
- Priscilla HonHon – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-2) – See H2H details
- Denisa AllertovaAllertova – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (1-1) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Na-Lae HanHan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogHercog – Ana BogdanBogdan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details