LUXEMBOURG. Ferocious Puig exterminates Ferro in the 1st round of the BGL Luxembourg Open

Monica Puig blitzes Fiona Ferro 6-1 6-0 in the 1^st round in Luxembourg on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to square off with Kristyna Pliskova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Puig was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Ferro in the 1^st game (1-0). Monica reinforced her lead after breaking Fiona in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before managing to win the set.

The Puerto Rican won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .

Puig missed the opportunity to break Fiona in the 3^rd game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

The French Player was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Ferro was broken 3 times and the Puerto Rican won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Puig scored 54 points vs. the French Player’s 25 points.

Monica served very well to win 95% of the points (19/20) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 41% points (7/17) on her second serve. Puig was pretty effective in converting 60% of the break points that she conquered (6/10). On the other side, Fiona wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Puig and Ferro is 1-0 for Monica.

Next Match: Monica Puig vs. Kristyna Pliskova – stats

Puig will face Pliskova in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Monica Puig and Kristyna Pliskova clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Puig and Pliskova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 6-2 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Strasbourg back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Luxembourg

• Monica PuigPuig – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Pauline ParmentierParmentier (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (0-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Antonia LottnerLottner – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Marta KostyukKostyuk (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (2-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-7⁴ 7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Denisa AllertovaAllertova – Mandy MinellaMinella (6-7⁷ 7-6⁵ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (2-6 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Shelby RogersRogers (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elise MertensMertens – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (1-0) – See H2H details
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details
• Cori GauffGauff – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Julia GoergesGoerges (0-1) – See H2H details
• Antonia LottnerLottner – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (0-0) – See H2H details
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-0) – See H2H details
• Denisa AllertovaAllertova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Monica PuigPuig – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – See H2H details