MELBOURNE RESULTS. Townsend bests Pegula in the 1st round of the Australian Open

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - MELBOURNE RESULTS. Townsend ousts Pegula to take on Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round

Prediction and head to head Taylor Townsend vs. Jessica Pegula

Taylor Townsend ousts Jessica Pegula 6-4 7-65 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Wednesday. Townsend will engage against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Townsend commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Pegula in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, that was not enough for Taylor to win the set since Jessica found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (3-3) game. Taylor kept her cool to break Pegula in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

Jessica lost the 5th game (3-2) when she had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.

2nd set.

Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Finally, Taylor won the tiebreak at 5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Taylor scored 86 points vs. Pegula’s 80 points.

Townsend won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points because she converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Pegula had a tough time converting her break points (only 22%2/9). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Townsend and Pegula is 1-0 for Taylor.

Highlights Taylor Townsend vs. Jessica Pegula Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Taylor Townsend vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats

Townsend will fight against Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round.

There is no head to head record between Taylor Townsend and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

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