LINZ. Kristina Mladenovic gets by Siniakova in the 1st round

Kristina Mladenovic dispatches Katerina Siniakova 6-1 7-5 in the 1^st round in Linz on Tuesday. Mladenovic will fight against Donna Vekic in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mladenovic was too good to concede just 1 game before breaking Siniakova 3 times and win the set 6-1.

The Czech couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Mladenovic conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Siniakova in the 2^nd game (2-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for the French Player to win the set since Katerina managed to break back in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (4-3) game. Mladenovic maintained her focus to break Katerina in the 6^th (3-3), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 12^th (7-5) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kristina scored 65 points vs. the Czech’s 52 points.

Kristina served very well to win 89% of the points (25/28) behind her first serve. However she won only 19% points (5/26) on her second serve. The French Player didn’t lose the focus when converting 64% of the break points that she conquered (7/11). On the other side, Siniakova was pretty good in converting 60% of the break points that she procured points (3/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Mladenovic and Siniakova is 4-4.

Next Match: Kristina Mladenovic vs. Donna Vekic – stats

Mladenovic will compete against Vekic in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 5^th time that Kristina Mladenovic and Donna Vekic fight against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Mladenovic and Vekic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played, Vekic won 7-5 6-4 in the quarter in Nottingham back in June 2019.

Tennis Scores in Linz

• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Fiona FerroFerro (6-2 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam – Belinda BencicBencic (6-4 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Donna VekicVekic – Polona HercogHercog (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Julia GrabherGrabher (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-1 6-7¹ 7-6⁵) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Kiki BertensBertens – Misaki DoiDoi (2-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Barbara HaasHaas (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Julia GoergesGoerges (3-2) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Donna VekicVekic (2-2) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (0-0) – See H2H details