Garbine Muguruza topples the defending champion Aryna Sabalenka 6-2 6-7(5) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Doha on Wednesday. Muguruza will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Maria Sakkari in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 26 minutes. Her best achievement in this competition was reaching the final in 2018. Here you can see her history at this event.

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Muguruza's Record

Muguruza added to her prize money $ 7,300 after winning this match. She has won already $ 15,500 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Spaniard will add $ 16,900 to her earnings to get in total $ 32,400 in total.

Muguruza was glad about the match. She commented:

“I’m very motivated to play top players. Like everybody, I worked hard. I’m fighting for trophies, to play well in big tournaments, in good tournaments.

Today I was facing a top player, and I knew I have to go out there with a big, fighting spirit, and strong to be able to win against these tough opponents.”

Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Aryna Sabalenka Qatar Total Open – Doha

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Muguruza
Sabalenka
6-2 6-75 6-3
2h:26
117
117
Total points
102
102
50
50
Winners
41
41
43%
43%
Ratio Winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
6
6
2
2
Double Faults
6
6
74%
74%
1st in
60%
60%
65%
65%
1st won
59%
59%
50/77
50/77
1st won
41/69
41/69
48%
48%
2nd won
43%
43%
13/27
13/27
2nd won
20/46
20/46
-- Break Points --
7/17
7/17
Total
4/13
4/13
41%
41%
Won
31%
31%
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At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 117 points vs. Aryna’s 102.

Muguruza

Garbine won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 41% (7/17) of the procured opportunities.

Sabalenka

On the other side, Aryna was struggling when converting her break points (only 31% – 4/13). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Muguruza and Sabalenka is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Maria Sakkari – stats

Muguruza will take on Sakkari in the quarter.

This will be the 2nd time that Garbine Muguruza and Maria Sakkari fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Sakkari won 7-5 6-4 in the 3rd round in Abu Dhabi back in January 2021.

Live score progression and stats

Muguruza took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Sakkari in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Garbine reinforced her lead after breaking Aryna in the 3rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).

There was an important spell in this set when the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.

They contested 63 points. The Spaniard won 9 more points than the Belarussian (36-27). The Spaniard dropped 11 points on serve (21-11). In addition, on the other side, Sabalenka conceded 15 points on serve (16-15).

Muguruza was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Sakkari in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Aryna refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Muguruza 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 8th

(5-3) and in the 12th (6-6) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.

Sabalenka failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.

Tiebreak

Aryna won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 5th (4-1), 9th (5-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Garbine won 2 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3) and 10th (5-5) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5

They played 85 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally Aryna won just 1 point more than Garbine (43-42

). Sabalenka dropped 20 points on serve (23-20). on the other side of the court, the Spaniard conceded 20 points on serve (22-20).

The Spaniard clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 5th (2-3) game, The Spaniard broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game to win the set 6-3.

Aryna was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-3 to 6-3.

Garbine converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (2-3 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 0-40). In addition on the other side, the Belarussian converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (2-2 15-40 and 30-40).

They contested 63 points. Garbine was the one to win the set after conquering 9 more points than the Belarussian (36-27). Garbine dropped 11 points on serve (19-11). On the other side, Aryna conceded 17 points on serve (16-17).

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