Urszula Radwanska surprises Leonie Kung 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in the Boutheon on Friday after playing a solid match to fight against Jaqueline Cristian in the semifinal. The epic lasted 8 hour and 13 minutes.
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Urszula won the set after she broke the Swiss in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (6-4) game. The Swiss tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. However, Radwanska didn’t blink to win the set 6-4.
The Pole converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 6th (3-2 15-40), the 8th (5-2 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Leonie converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 79 points. The Pole was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than the Swiss (42-37). Urszula lost 13 points on serve (21-13). on the other side of the net, the Swiss conceded 21 points on serve (24-21).
Radwanska conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Kung in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for Urszula to win the set because the Swiss succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (1-4) game. Radwanska kept her cool to break Kung in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
A defining moment of this set was when the Pole won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.
The Pole converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 4th (3-0 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 0-40 and 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Kung converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 5th game (0-4 30-40).
They contested 42 points. The Pole conquered the set after winning 12 more points than Leonie (27-15). Radwanska conceded 10 points on serve (15-10). on the other side of the court, Leonie conceded 12 points on serve (5-12).
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At the end of the match, Radwanska scored 69 points vs. Leonie’s 52.
The Pole won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points after she converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Kung was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Radwanska and Kung is 1-0 for Urszula.
Draw and next match H2H: Urszula Radwanska vs. Jaqueline Cristian – stats
Radwanska will fight against Cristian in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Urszula Radwanska and Jaqueline Cristian play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cristian (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they squared off, Cristian won 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Surprise back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Boutheon
- Kathinka Von DeichmannVon Deichmann – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Harmony TanTan – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (6-0 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Urszula RadwanskaRadwanska – Leonie KungKung (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Laura-Ioana PaarPaar (1-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Urszula RadwanskaRadwanska – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Harmony TanTan – Kathinka Von DeichmannVon Deichmann (0-0) – H2H details and stats
