Jana Cepelova hustles Isabella Shinikova 7-5 6-4 in the qualifications in Moscow on Monday. Cepelova will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Ekaterina Alexandrova in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Cepelova won the set after she broke Shinikova in the 5th (3-2) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The Bulgarian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. However, Cepelova kept the focus before winning the set 7-5.
2nd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Slovakian conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Jana scored 73 points vs. the Bulgarian’s 58 points.
The Slovakian served exceptionally well to win 75% of the points (33/44) behind her first serve, and she won 61% points (11/18) on her second serve. Cepelova won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 30% (3/10). On the other side, Isabella was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 33% of her break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Cepelova and Shinikova is 2-0 for Jana.
Next Match: Jana Cepelova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats
Cepelova will compete against Alexandrova in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Jana Cepelova and Ekaterina Alexandrova clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they squared off, Alexandrova won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in Nurnberg back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in Moscow
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jana CepelovaCepelova – Isabella ShinikovaShinikova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – See H2H details
- Jana CepelovaCepelova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Natalia VikhlyantsevaVikhlyantseva (0-1) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogHercog – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-1) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-1) – See H2H details
- Timea BabosBabos – Kaia KanepiKanepi (0-2) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details