BRISBANE RESULTS. Karolina Pliskova prevails over Osaka in the semifinal

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL - BRISBANE RESULTS. Pliskova tops Osaka to fight against Madison Keys in the final

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Naomi Osaka

Karolina Pliskova gets by Naomi Osaka 6-710 7-63 6-2 in the semifinal in Brisbane on Saturday. Pliskova will play against Madison Keys in the final.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, Naomi won the tiebreak at 10.

2nd set.

Karolina clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 11th (5-6) game, The Czech broke back in the 12th (6-6) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.

3rd set.

Pliskova had a racing start in this set after breaking Osaka in the 1st game (1-0). Karolina reinforced her lead after breaking the Japanese in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Karolina scored 126 points vs. Naomi’s 114 points.

Karolina served pretty well to win 76% of the points (66/87) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 48% points (19/40) on her second serve. The Czech fired 15 aces and she committed 6 double faults. Karolina won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 33% (3/9). On the other side, the Japanese was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 8% – 1/13). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Pliskova and Osaka is 3-2 for Karolina.

Highlights Karolina Pliskova vs. Naomi Osaka Brisbane International – Brisbane

Pliskova’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Karolina Pliskova vs. Madison Keys – stats

Pliskova will square off with Keys in the final.

There is no head to head record between Karolina Pliskova and Madison Keys since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

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