Petra Kvitova bests Sanders in the 2nd round of the Volvo Car Open. HIGHLIGHTS – CHARLESTON RESULTS

VOLVO CAR OPEN - CHARLESTON RESULTS. Kvitova aces Sanders to fight against Leylah Annie Fernandez or Danka Kovinic in the 3rd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Petra Kvitova vs. Storm Sanders

Petra Kvitova overcomes Storm Sanders 7-6(4) 6-2 in the 2nd round in Charleston on Tuesday. Kvitova will fight against Leylah Annie Fernandez or Danka Kovinic in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 26 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. Here you can see her history at this event.

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The Czech added to her prize money $ 2,380 after winning this match. She has won already $ 6,480 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Czech will add $ 6,190 to her earnings to get in total $ 12,670 in total.

Highlights Petra Kvitova vs. Storm Sanders Volvo Car Open – Charleston

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

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At the end of the match, Petra scored 69 points vs. Sanders’s 60.

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Petra was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (2/4).

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On the other side, Storm wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Kvitova was just to good and the Australian had no opportunity to win this match.

After this match, the head to head between Kvitova and Sanders is 1-0 for Petra.

Draw and next match H2H: Petra Kvitova vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez or Danka Kovinic – stats

Kvitova will face either Leylah Annie Fernandez or Danka Kovinic in the 3rd round. The head to head is 1-0 vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez and 2-0 vs. Danka Kovinic.Petra Kvitova Draw info

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Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, the Czech won the tiebreak at 7-4.

Tiebreak

Kvitova won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 9th (5-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Australian won a minibreak in the 3rd (2-1) point.

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

The Czech wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (3-3 30-40). On the other side, Petra didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 83 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Kvitova won just 3 more points than Storm (43-40). The Czech dropped 12 points on serve (31-12). Regarding the other side of the net, the Australian conceded 12 points on serve (28-12).

The Czech in this set was too good for Storm and finally she won 6-2 after breaking Sanders in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.

Storm was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-2 to 6-2.

They played 46 points. The Czech was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Storm (26-20). Petra conceded 9 points on serve (17-9). on the other side of the court, Sanders conceded 9 points on serve (11-9).

 

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