MELBOURNE RESULTS. Iga Swiatek surprises Vekic in the 3rd round of the Australian Open

Iga Swiatek shocks Donna Vekic 7-5 6-3 in the 3^rd round in Melbourne on Saturday. Swiatek will engage against Anett Kontaveit in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Iga conquered in the 12^th game (7-5).

2^nd set.

Vekic commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Swiatek in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, the Pole refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Croatian in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

The Croatian was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 78 points vs. Vekic’s 63 points.

Swiatek served extremely well to win 78% of the points (31/40) behind her first serve, and she won 55% points (18/33) on her second serve. Iga won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, the Croatian was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Swiatek and Vekic is 1-0 for Iga.

Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Donna Vekic Australian Open – Melbourne

Swiatek’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Anett Kontaveit – stats

Swiatek will play Kontaveit in the 4^th round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Iga Swiatek and Anett Kontaveit square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kontaveit (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Kontaveit won 6-4 7-6² in the 2^nd round in Cincinnati back in 2019.

Tennis Scores at the

• Simona HalepHalep – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (6-1 6-7⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Serena WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-7² 7-5) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Madison KeysKeys (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – See H2H details