LUXEMBOURG. Goerges tops Doi in the 1st round of the BGL Luxembourg Open

Julia Goerges victorious over Misaki Doi 5-7 6-1 6-3 in the 1^st round in Luxembourg on Wednesday. Goerges is going to play against Sorana Cirstea in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Misaki won the set after she broke Julia in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 12^th (7-5) game. The German tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Nonetheless, Doi maintained the focus before winning the set 7-5.

2^nd set.

Julia was too strong to concede just 1 game before breaking Doi 3 times and win the set 6-1.

Doi couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Goerges won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (4-3) game. Goerges broke back 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Julia scored 114 points vs. Doi’s 90 points.

Goerges served pretty well to win 75% of the points (43/57) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 41% points (15/37) on her second serve. Julia blasted 21 aces and she committed 5 double faults. Goerges won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points because she converted only 29% (7/24). On the other side, Doi had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 31% of her break points (4/13). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Goerges and Doi is 2-0 for Julia.

Highlights Julia Goerges vs. Misaki Doi BGL Luxembourg Open – Luxembourg

Next Match: Julia Goerges vs. Sorana Cirstea – stats

Goerges will square off with Cirstea in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 4^th time that Julia Goerges and Sorana Cirstea clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Goerges (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Goerges won 6-1 7-5 in the 1^st round in Stuttgart back in 2014.

Tennis Scores in Luxembourg

• Julia GoergesGoerges – Misaki DoiDoi (5-7 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Caty McNallyMcNally (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Cori GauffGauff (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Pauline ParmentierParmentier (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Marta KostyukKostyuk (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Antonia LottnerLottner – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (2-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Monica PuigPuig – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (0-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
• Denisa AllertovaAllertova – Mandy MinellaMinella (6-7⁷ 7-6⁵ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-7⁴ 7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Shelby RogersRogers (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (2-6 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elise MertensMertens – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details
• Antonia LottnerLottner – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-1) – See H2H details
• Monica PuigPuig – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – See H2H details
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-2) – See H2H details
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details