WUHAN. Elina Svitolina prevails over Muguruza in the 2nd round

Elina Svitolina overcomes Garbine Muguruza 7-5 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Wuhan on Tuesday. Svitolina will have to play Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Muguruza had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Svitolina in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the Ukrainian was not done to come back to break Muguruza 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 8^th (4-4) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

2^nd set.

Svitolina came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Muguruza in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Svitolina improved her lead after breaking Garbine in the 8^th (6-2) game before conquering the set.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Elina scored 74 points vs. Muguruza’s 60 points.

Elina served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (26/34) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 48% points (11/23) on her second serve. Svitolina won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Garbine didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Svitolina and Muguruza is 6-4 for Elina.

Highlights Elina Svitolina vs. Garbine Muguruza Wuhan Open – Wuhan

Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova – stats

Svitolina will square off with Kuznetsova in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 4^th time that Elina Svitolina and Svetlana Kuznetsova play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Svitolina won 7-6¹ 4-6 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Cincinnati back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Elise MertensMertens (4-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Monica PuigPuig (2-6 7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Bernarda PeraPera (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-0 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 6-7³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Yafan WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Polona HercogHercog (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-1 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (3-1) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Kiki BertensBertens (0-4) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Alison RiskeRiske (0-2) – See H2H details
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-2) – See H2H details
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – See H2H details