Madison Brengle wins against Jessica Pegula 1-6 7-67 6-2 in the quarter in Newport Beach on Friday. Brengle will play Nadia Podoroska in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Pegula had a racing start in this set after breaking Brengle in the 1st game (1-0). Pegula improved her lead after breaking Madison in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game before conquering the set.
Madison was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).
2nd set.
Brengle came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Pegula in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, that was not enough for Madison to win the set because Pegula managed to break back in the 8th (3-5) and in the 10th (5-5) game. Madison maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 7.
Madison failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.
Notwithstanding also Pegula won 4 consecutive games from 2-5 to 6-5
3rd set.
Pegula didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Brengle in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Madison managed to stage a great comeback to break Jessica 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
A defining moment of this contest was when Madison won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
Statistics
Madison won this match even if she won the same amount of points of Jessica (95 vs. 95).
Brengle was pretty effective in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8). On the other side, Jessica was struggling when converting her break points (only 46% – 6/13). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Brengle and Pegula is 2-1.
Next Match H2H: Madison Brengle vs. Nadia Podoroska – stats
Brengle will square off with Podoroska in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Madison Brengle and Nadia Podoroska clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Podoroska (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Podoroska won 7-5 0-6 6-3 in the 1st round in Monterrey back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Newport Beach
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-6 7-67 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Coco VandewegheVandeweghe (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Tatjana MariaMaria (2-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-1) – See H2H details
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-0) – See H2H details
