Elina Svitolina won against Cori Gauff 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in Melbourne on Thursday in 1 hour and 17 minutes. It was surprising seeing Elina defeating the upcoming American without putting in not so much effort.
The message to her boyfriend Gael Monfils
Elina’s boyfriend Monfils looked completely distraught after he lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Emil Ruusuvori. Gael has been struggling to accept the fact that it is practically 1 year that he has not been able to win a single match. Elina dedicated her first round win against Marie Bouzkova to Gael when she drew a heart and the name of Gael on the camera after the match. Svitolina did something similar after beating Coco to draw an heart on the camera and write GEMS that is the name of the joint Instagram account that she has with Monfils.
.@ElinaSvitolina '♥️ gems ' #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/wf60qPxHe9
— Elina Svitolina FP✨ (@SvitolinaNL) February 11, 2021
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs. Cori Gauff Australian Open – Melbourne
Svitolina’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Svitolina scored 65 points vs. Cori’s 56.
Svitolina
Elina served extremely well to win 79% of the points (34/43) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 44% points (11/25) on her second serve. Svitolina didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (2/3).
Gauff
On the other side, Gauff wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Gauff is 1-0 for Elina.
With this win, Svitolina added to her prize money $ 65,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 215,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Svitolina will add $ 105,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 320,000 in total. Her best result in this tournament was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Draw and next match H2H: Elina Svitolina vs. Yulia Putintseva – stats
Svitolina will play Putintseva in the 3rd round.
This will be the 8th time that Elina Svitolina and Yulia Putintseva face off. The head to head is 5-2 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Svitolina won 3-6 6-1 7-65 in the 2nd round in Zhengzhou back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Elina conquered in the 10th game (6-4) just before finally conquering the set (6-4).
Svitolina failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 0.
They played 61 points. Svitolina was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Cori (33-28). Svitolina dropped 11 points on serve (22-11). In addition, on the other side, Gauff conceded 10 points on serve (16-10).
Similarly to the 1st set, both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Elina grabbed in the 8th game (5-3) just before eventually conquering the set (6-3).
They played 59 points. Svitolina conquered the set after winning 9 more points than Cori (34-25). Svitolina conceded 11 points on serve (22-11). In addition, on the other side, Gauff conceded 12 points on serve (14-12).
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (6-4 1-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Heather WatsonWatson (6-75 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-5 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Nao HibinoHibino (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Kaja JuvanJuvan – Mayar SherifSherif (3-6 7-62 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (6-1 7-67) – Stats and score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Cori GauffGauff (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Lin ZhuZhu (7-68 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-3 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison BrengleBrengle (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Samantha StosurStosur (6-0 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Mona BarthelBarthel (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 1-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-65 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-1 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (5-7 6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Bernarda PeraPera (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Ann LiLi – Alize CornetCornet (6-2 7-66) – Stats and score progression
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Sara ErraniErrani – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-1 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Shelby RogersRogers (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Belinda BencicBencic – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Donna VekicVekic (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-5) – H2H details and stats
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Simona HalepHalep (1-1) – H2H details and stats