Ekaterina Alexandrova conquers Kristie Ahn 6-70 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Seoul on Friday. Alexandrova will clash against Magda Linette in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Ahn had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Alexandrova in the 1st game (1-0). However, that was not enough for Ahn to win the set since Ekaterina succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (3-3) game. Ahn kept her focus before winning the set at the breaker at 0.
2nd set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Alexandrova conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).
3rd set.
Ahn had a great start in this set after breaking Alexandrova in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, the Russian refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the American in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (3-2) game before winning the set (6-4).
A crucial moment of the match was when Alexandrova won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-2 to 4-2.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 103 points vs. Ahn’s 91 points.
Ekaterina served extremely well to win 84% of the points (43/51) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 49% points (19/39) on her second serve. Alexandrova blasted 22 aces and she committed 5 double faults. Alexandrova won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Ahn was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 25% of her break points (2/8). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Alexandrova and Ahn is 1-0 for Ekaterina.
Next Match: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Magda Linette – stats
Alexandrova will compete against Linette in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Magda Linette since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Magda LinetteLinette – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristie AhnAhn (6-70 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Priscilla HonHon (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Yafan WangWang – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteLinette – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details
