LINZ. Kristina Mladenovic downs Vekic in the 2nd round

Kristina Mladenovic topples Donna Vekic 3-6 6-1 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Linz on Thursday. Mladenovic is going to play against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mladenovic conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Vekic in the 1^st game (1-0). However, the Croatian succeeded in coming back to break the French Player 4 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Kristina lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Kristina was far too good to drop just 1 game before breaking Donna 2 times and win the set 6-1.

Vekic couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Kristina in this set was in much better shape than Donna and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Vekic in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

The Croatian was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kristina scored 81 points vs. the Croatian’s 69 points.

Mladenovic was pretty focused in converting 78% of the break points that she conquered (7/9). On the other side, the Croatian was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (4/8). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Mladenovic and Vekic is 3-2 for Kristina.

Highlights Kristina Mladenovic vs. Donna Vekic Upper Austria Ladies Linz – Linz

Next Match: Kristina Mladenovic vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats

Mladenovic will square off with Alexandrova in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Kristina Mladenovic and Ekaterina Alexandrova since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Linz

• Kiki BertensBertens – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alize CornetCornet (7-5 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (7-6¹ 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (4-6 6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Julia GoergesGoerges (7-6² 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Kiki BertensBertens – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – See H2H details
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details