Ekaterina Alexandrova gets the better of Kristyna Pliskova 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Seoul on Wednesday. Alexandrova will play Kristie Ahn in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Czech conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Alexandrova had a favorable start in this set after breaking Pliskova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That break was the key and it was sufficient for Alexandrova to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.
3rd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Russian conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Ekaterina scored 80 points vs. Pliskova’s 74 points.
The Russian served pretty well to win 86% of the points (38/44) behind her first serve, and she won 55% points (16/29) on her second serve. Ekaterina won this match even if she had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 29% (2/7). On the other side, the Czech didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Alexandrova and Pliskova is 1-0 for Ekaterina.
Next Match: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Kristie Ahn – stats
Alexandrova will play Ahn in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Kristie Ahn since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- 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
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (3-6 6-3 6-4) – 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
- Yafan WangWang – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (4-6 6-3 6-0) – 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
