ACAPULCO RESULTS. Heather Watson bests Vandeweghe in the 1st round

Heather Watson topples Coco Vandeweghe 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in Acapulco on Monday. Watson will have to play Kateryna Bondarenko in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Watson had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Vandeweghe in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, Vandeweghe managed to stage a great comeback to break the Brit 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (3-3) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

2^nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that heather conquered in the 3^rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

3^rd set.

Watson started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Vandeweghe in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Watson to win the set since the American managed to break back in the 8^th (3-5) game.

Watson failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.

Statistics

At the end of the match, heather scored 104 points vs. Vandeweghe’s 98 points.

The Brit won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points as she converted only 33% (5/15). On the other side, Vandeweghe was battling in converting her break points (only 44% – 4/9). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Watson and Vandeweghe is 1-0 for Heather.

Highlights Heather Watson vs. Coco Vandeweghe Abierto Mexicano TELCEL – Acapulco

Next Match H2H: Heather Watson vs. Kateryna Bondarenko – stats

Watson will square off with Bondarenko in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 5^th time that Heather Watson and Kateryna Bondarenko square off. The head to head is 2-2 for Watson and Bondarenko (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Watson won 6-4 7-6³ in the 1^st round in Tianjin back in 2019.

Tennis Scores in Acapulco

• Heather WatsonWatson – Coco VandewegheVandeweghe (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Xiyu WangWang – Yafan WangWang (6-4 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-7⁷ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (4-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Nao HibinoHibino – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

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