MELBOURNE RESULTS. Ekaterina Alexandrova bests Belen Teichmann in the 1st round of the Australian Open

Ekaterina Alexandrova downs Jil Teichmann 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the 1^st round in Melbourne on Monday. Alexandrova will fight against Barbora Krejcikova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Alexandrova started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Belen Teichmann in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Alexandrova to win the set as the Swiss managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 8^th (3-5) game. The Russian kept her focus to break Jil in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game before conquering the set (6-4).

Alexandrova missed the chance to break the Swiss in the 9^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

There was an important spell in this match when the Russian won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

Alexandrova had a great start in this set after breaking Belen Teichmann in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Jil refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Ekaterina 4 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (3-3), in the 8^th (5-3) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Belen Teichmann failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 0.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Swiss won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 1-3 to 5-3.

3^rd set.

Alexandrova started the set strong after breaking Belen Teichmann in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Ekaterina reinforced her lead after breaking the Swiss in the 3^rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).

A defining moment of this match was when Ekaterina won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Russian scored 109 points vs. Belen Teichmann’s 99 points.

Ekaterina won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 32% (8/25). On the other side, Belen Teichmann was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (6/9). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Alexandrova and Belen Teichmann is 1-1.

Highlights Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Jil Teichmann Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Barbora Krejcikova – stats

Alexandrova will face Krejcikova in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Barbora Krejcikova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Alexandrova won 4-6 6-0 6-2 in the 1^st round in Bucharest back in 2017.

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

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• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuZhu – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (4-6 6-1 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Caty McNallyMcNally – Samantha StosurStosur (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Venus WilliamsWilliams (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Kristie AhnAhn (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Na-Lae HanHan (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-6³ 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Johanna LarssonLarsson (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
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• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (5-7 6-1 6-1) – See score progression

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