Coco Vandeweghe surprises Allie Kiick 6-2 6-1 in the 2nd round in Newport Beach on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to deal with Nicole Gibbs in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Vandeweghe overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Kiick in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Coco to win the set since Allie managed to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. Vandeweghe maintained her focus to break Kiick in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
One of the most important stint of the contest was when Coco won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
2nd set.
Vandeweghe was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Kiick in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. However, that wasn’t sufficient for Coco to win the set since Allie found the way to break back in the 6th (1-5) game. Coco maintained her cool to break Allie in the 7th (6-1) game.
Vandeweghe failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 0.
There was an important spell in this match when Vandeweghe won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Vandeweghe scored 56 points vs. Allie’s 35 points.
Coco was pretty effective in converting 58% of the break points that she conquered (7/12). On the other side, Kiick had a tough time converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Vandeweghe and Kiick is 1-0 for Coco.
Next Match H2H: Coco Vandeweghe vs. Nicole Gibbs – stats
Vandeweghe will take on Gibbs in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd
time that Coco Vandeweghe and Nicole Gibbs play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Vandeweghe (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.The last time that they locked horns, Vandeweghe won 6-0 6-2 in the 2nd round in Stanford back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Newport Beach
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Hanna ChangChang (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yanina WickmayerWickmayer – Claire LiuLiu (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Sara ErraniErrani (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Alexa GlatchGlatch (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Sophia WhittleWhittle – Robin AndersonAnderson (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Grace MinMin (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Allie KiickKiick (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Nicole GibbsGibbs – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Amandine HesseHesse (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Dalma GalfiGalfi – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Mayo HibiHibi (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronica Cepede RoygCepede Royg – Quinn GleasonGleason (7-5 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Irina FalconiFalconi – Usue Maitane ArconadaMaitane Arconada (7-6(5) 6-1) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Jessika PonchetPonchet (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ana Sofia SanchezSofia Sanchez (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Dalma GalfiGalfi (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yanina WickmayerWickmayer – Madison BrengleBrengle (1-0) – See H2H details
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Shelby RogersRogers (1-1) – See H2H details
- Veronica Cepede RoygCepede Royg – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Irina FalconiFalconi (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sophia WhittleWhittle – Christina MchaleMchale (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nicole GibbsGibbs – Coco VandewegheVandeweghe (0-2) – See H2H details
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-0) – See H2H details