Petra Martic ousts Su-Wei Hsieh 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Dubai on Tuesday. Martic will fight against Barbora Strycova in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Croatian won the set after she broke Hsieh in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Su-Wei tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Nevertheless, Martic refused to give way before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
Hsieh had a racing start in this set after breaking Martic in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, Petra managed to stage a good comeback to break Hsieh 4 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2), in the 7th (5-2) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Martic failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 15.
There was an important spell in this match when Petra won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-2 to 5-2.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Petra scored 73 points vs. Su-Wei’s 62 points.
The Croatian was effective when converting 86% of the break points that she procured (6/7). On the other side, Su-Wei had a tough time converting her break points (only 23% – 3/13). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Martic and Hsieh is 2-2.
Highlights Petra Martic vs. Su-Wei Hsieh Dubai Duty Free Championships – Dubai
Next Match H2H: Petra Martic vs. Barbora Strycova – stats
Martic will fight against Strycova in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Petra Martic and Barbora Strycova fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Martic (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Martic won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Beijing back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (5-7 6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sofia KeninKenin (6-72 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kim ClijstersClijsters (6-2 7-66) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-63 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Alison RiskeRiske (7-63 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Simona HalepHalep – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-2) – See H2H details
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details
- Petra MarticMartic – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (3-1) – See H2H details
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (3-2) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-2) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-3) – See H2H details