Julia Goerges victorious over Misaki Doi 5-7 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in Luxembourg on Wednesday. Goerges is going to play against Sorana Cirstea in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Misaki won the set after she broke Julia in the 4th (3-1) and in the 12th (7-5) game. The German tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Nonetheless, Doi maintained the focus before winning the set 7-5.
2nd 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).
3rd set.
Goerges won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Goerges broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (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 2nd round.
This will be the 4th 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 1st 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