Garbine Muguruza gets the better of Veronika Kudermetova 7-5 4-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in Dubai on Wednesday. Muguruza will play against Jennifer Brady in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kudermetova overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Muguruza in the 1st game (1-0). However, Garbine succeeded in coming back to break Kudermetova 3 times in the 6th (3-3), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
2nd set.
Kudermetova won the set after she broke Garbine in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game. The Spaniard tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) game. Anyhow, Kudermetova didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.
Certainly, a key moment was when Kudermetova won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
3rd set.
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Garbine conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 111 points vs. the Russian’s 97 points.
Muguruza served exceptionally well to win 83% of the points (40/48) behind her first serve. However she won only 43% points (21/49) on her second serve. The Spaniard blasted 10 aces and she committed 8 double faults. The Spaniard won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 38% (5/13). On the other side, Veronika was effective in converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Muguruza and Kudermetova is 1-0 for Garbine.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Veronika Kudermetova Dubai Duty Free Championships – Dubai
Next Match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Jennifer Brady – stats
Muguruza will take on Brady in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Garbine Muguruza and Jennifer Brady since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Elise MertensMertens (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-5 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Simona HalepHalep – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – See H2H details
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (3-2) – See H2H details
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
