Priscilla Hon upsets Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3 5-7 6-1 in the 2nd round in Seoul on Thursday. Hon is going to play against Karolina Muchova in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Priscilla won the set after she broke Tomljanovic in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game. Ajla tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (5-2) game. Anyhow, Hon kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-3.
Priscilla failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 40.
A crucial moment of the match was when Priscilla won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
2nd set.
Ajla won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (2-3) game. Ajla broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (3-3) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
3rd set.
Priscilla won the set after she broke Tomljanovic 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game. That was decisive for Hon to conquer the set because she didn’t concede her serve during the rest of the set.
The Croatian was completely knocked out in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Priscilla scored 102 points vs. Tomljanovic’s 91 points.
Priscilla won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points because she converted only 44% (7/16). On the other side, Tomljanovic was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 31% of her break points (4/13). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Hon and Tomljanovic is 1-0 for Priscilla.
Next Match: Priscilla Hon vs. Karolina Muchova – stats
Hon will compete against Muchova in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Priscilla Hon and Karolina Muchova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hon (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Hon won 6-1 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Seoul back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Priscilla HonHon – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-3 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Kristie AhnAhn – Ana BogdanBogdan (0-6 6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Priscilla HonHon (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Magda LinetteLinette (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kristie AhnAhn – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details