LUXEMBOURG. Siegemund aces Kostyuk in the 1st round

Laura Siegemund overcomes Marta Kostyuk 4-6 7-5 6-2 in the 1^st round in Luxembourg on Tuesday. Siegemund will seek to keep on going in this event against Viktoria Kuzmova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Kostyuk conquered in the 10^th game (6-4).

2^nd set.

Kostyuk conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Siegemund in the 2^nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, Laura managed to stage a great comeback to break the Ukrainian 3 times in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

The Ukrainian lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).

3^rd set.

Siegemund didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Kostyuk in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the German to win the set because the Ukrainian succeeded in breaking back in the 6^th (2-4) game. Siegemund kept her cool to break Marta in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when Laura won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Laura scored 101 points vs. Kostyuk’s 83 points.

Siegemund was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (6/9). On the other side, Kostyuk was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (4/8). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Siegemund and Kostyuk is 1-0 for Laura.

Next Match: Laura Siegemund vs. Viktoria Kuzmova – stats

Siegemund will compete against Kuzmova in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Laura Siegemund and Viktoria Kuzmova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Luxembourg

• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Marta KostyukKostyuk (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Monica PuigPuig – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-0) – 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
• 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
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Shelby RogersRogers (6-3 1-6 6-4) – 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

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