Anett Kontaveit beats Swiatek to face Simona Halep in the quarters. PREDICTION, H2H

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - MELBOURNE RESULTS. Kontaveit gets by Swiatek to take on Simona Halep in the quarter

Kontaveit

Anett Kontaveit tops Iga Swiatek 6-74 7-5 7-5 in the 4th round in Melbourne on Monday. Kontaveit will face Simona Halep in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Swiatek conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Kontaveit in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, there was more to do for Swiatek to win the set because Kontaveit found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Swiatek maintained her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.

Iga missed the opportunity to break the Estonian in the 6th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2nd set.

Swiatek took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Kontaveit in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Kontaveit found the way to come back to break Swiatek 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

3rd set.

Kontaveit enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Swiatek in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, that was not enough for the Estonian to win the set as Iga managed to break back in the 7th (2-5) and in the 9th (4-5) game. Kontaveit kept her focus to break Iga in the 12th (7-5) game.

Kontaveit failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.

Yet also the Pole won 4 consecutive games from 1-5 to 5-5

Statistics

At the end of the match, Anett scored 118 points vs. Swiatek’s 109 points.

The Estonian was effective in converting 64% of the break points that she conquered (9/14). On the other side, Swiatek was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 37%7/19). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Kontaveit and Swiatek is 2-0 for Anett.

Highlights Anett Kontaveit vs. Iga Swiatek Australian Open – Melbourne

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Next Match H2H: Anett Kontaveit vs. Simona Halep – stats

Prediction: Halep in 2

Kontaveit will fight against Halep in the quarter.

This will be the 3rd time that Anett Kontaveit and Simona Halep fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Halep won 6-2 6-4 in the quarter in Rome back in 2017.

Anett Kontaveit in Melbourne

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