Garbine Muguruza gets the better of Simona Halep 7-68 7-5 in the semifinal in Melbourne on Thursday. Muguruza will face Sofia Kenin in the final.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Garbine won the set after she broke Halep in the 7th (4-3) game. The Romanian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Nevertheless, Muguruza maintained the focus before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 8.

2nd set.

The Spaniard won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (2-3) game. The Spaniard broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

The Romanian was dominated in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Garbine scored 90 points vs. Simona’s 87 points.

The Spaniard fired 10 aces and she committed 2 double faults. The Spaniard won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 29%

(4/14). On the other side, Halep was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 23% – 3/13). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Muguruza and Halep is 4-2 for Garbine.

Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Simona Halep Australian Open – Melbourne

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Next Match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Sofia Kenin – stats

Muguruza will take on Kenin in the final.

This will be the 2nd time that Garbine Muguruza and Sofia Kenin face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Kenin won 6-0 2-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Beijing back in 2019.

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