Magda Linette dispatches Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-65 7-67 in the semifinal in Seoul on Saturday. Linette will square off with Karolina Muchova in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Linette won the set after she broke Ekaterina in the 8th (5-3) game. Alexandrova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. However, Magda kept the situation under control before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.
The Pole failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 0.
2nd set.
Linette clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Linette broke back in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 7.
Linette missed the chance to break the Russian in the 7th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Statistics
Linette won this contest even if she conquered the same amount of points of Alexandrova (93 vs. 93).
Magda won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 17% (2/12). On the other side, the Russian didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Linette and Alexandrova is 1-0 for Magda.
Next Match: Magda Linette vs. Karolina Muchova – stats
Linette will fight against Muchova in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Magda Linette and Karolina Muchova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Linette (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Linette won 6-74 6-4 7-63 in the quarter in New York back in August 2019.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Magda LinetteLinette – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-65 7-67) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Yafan WangWang (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Magda LinetteLinette (0-1) – See H2H details
