Great Halep vanquishes Kontaveit in the AO quarter. Next Muguruza in the semifinal

Simona Halep extinguishes Anett Kontaveit 6-1 6-1 in the quarter in Melbourne on Wednesday after playing a remarkable match to fight against Garbine Muguruza in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Romanian was too strong to drop just 1 game before breaking Kontaveit 3 times and win the set 6-1.

Kontaveit was completely outplayed in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Halep had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Kontaveit in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The Romanian improved her lead after breaking the Estonian in the 4^th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).

An important stage of this contest was when the Romanian won 5 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Halep scored 54 points vs. Anett’s 34 points.

The Romanian served extremely well to win 78% of the points (25/32) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 44% points (4/9) on her second serve. Halep won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Kontaveit wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Halep and Kontaveit is 3-0 for Simona.

Highlights Simona Halep vs. Anett Kontaveit Australian Open – Melbourne

Halep’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Simona Halep vs. Garbine Muguruza – stats

Prediction: Halep in 3 sets

Halep will square off with Muguruza in the semifinal.

This will be the 6^th time that Simona Halep and Garbine Muguruza fight against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Halep won 6-1 6-4 in the semifinal in Paris back in 2018.

Tennis Scores at the

• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (7-6⁶ 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (4-1) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-3) – See H2H details