MOSCOW. Muchova defeats Vekic in the 2nd round of the Kremlin Cup

Karolina Muchova defeats Donna Vekic 6-4 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Moscow on Wednesday. Muchova will seek to keep on going in this event against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Vekic conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Muchova in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, Karolina refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Croatian 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 8^th (4-4) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

2^nd set.

Karolina in this set didn’t concede much to Donna and eventually she won 6-2. Vekic broke the Czech 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. However, Karolina broke her opponent in the 5^th (3-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to win the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Muchova scored 59 points vs. Vekic’s 41 points.

The Czech was pretty focused in converting 75% of the break points that she procured (6/8). On the other side, Vekic didn’t lose the focus when converting 75% of the break points that she procured points (3/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Muchova and Vekic is 1-0 for Karolina.

Highlights Karolina Muchova vs. Donna Vekic Kremlin Cup – Moscow

Next Match: Karolina Muchova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats

Muchova will face Alexandrova in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Karolina Muchova and Ekaterina Alexandrova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Moscow

• Belinda BencicBencic – Polona HercogHercog (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-1 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-0) – See H2H details
• Kaia KanepiKanepi – Kiki BertensBertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Belinda BencicBencic (1-2) – See H2H details