Ekaterina Alexandrova breezes past Anna Kalinskaya 6-1 6-1 in the 2nd round in Moscow on Wednesday after playing a remarkable match to square off with Karolina Muchova in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Alexandrova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Kalinskaya in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Alexandrova managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Kalinskaya in the 4th (4-0) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
Alexandrova lost a big opportunity to break Kalinskaya in the 6th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
A crucial moment of the match was when Ekaterina won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
2nd set.
Alexandrova had a great start in this set after breaking Kalinskaya in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Ekaterina to win the set since Kalinskaya found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Alexandrova kept her focus to break Kalinskaya in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.
Kalinskaya was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Ekaterina scored 55 points vs. Anna’s 27 points.
Ekaterina served extremely well to win 86% of the points (18/21) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (10/20) on her second serve. Alexandrova struck 11 aces and she committed 4 double faults. Ekaterina didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that she procured (6/12). On the other side, Anna had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 25% of her break points (1/4). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Alexandrova and Kalinskaya is 2-0 for Ekaterina.
Next Match: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Karolina Muchova – stats
Alexandrova will face Muchova in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Karolina Muchova since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Moscow
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Kiki BertensBertens – Kaia KanepiKanepi (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Polona HercogHercog (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (1-1) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Belinda BencicBencic (1-2) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – See H2H details