Karolina Muchova dispatches Sakkari in the 3rd round of the Mutua Madrid Open. HIGHLIGHTS – MADRID RESULTS

Karolina Muchova ousts Maria Sakkari 6-0 6-7(9) 7-5 in the 3^rd round in Madrid on Tuesday. Muchova is going to play against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Madrid

Muchova's Record

Karolina added to her prize money € 24,322 after winning this match. She has won already € 58,370 after this win. If she wins the next match, Karolina will add € 48,320 to her earnings to get in total € 106,690 in total.

Highlights Karolina Muchova vs. Maria Sakkari Mutua Madrid Open – Madrid

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Muchova

Sakkari

6-0 6-7⁹ 7-5
2h:35

109

109

Total points

95

95

42

42

Winners

41

41

39%

39%

Ratio Winners

43%

43%

-- Serve --

3

3

Aces

4

4

1

1

Double Faults

3

3

63%

63%

1st in

69%

69%

65%

65%

1st won

59%

59%

42/65

42/65

1st won

41/70

41/70

50%

50%

2nd won

39%

39%

19/38

19/38

2nd won

12/31

12/31

-- Break Points --

8/15

8/15

Total

4/8

4/8

53%

53%

Won

50%

50%

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At the end of the match, Karolina scored 109 points vs. Sakkari’s 95.

Muchova

Muchova was pretty good at converting 53% of the break points that she conquered (8/15).

Sakkari

On the other side, Maria was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (4/8). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Muchova and Sakkari is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Karolina Muchova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats

Muchova will square off with Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Karolina Muchova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pavlyuchenkova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Pavlyuchenkova won 6-4 6-7⁶ 6-1 in the semifinal in Moscow back in 2019.

Live score progression and stats

This set was a no-contest as the Czech conceded no games to the Greek before winning the set 6-0.

They contested 43 points. Karolina was the winner of the set after clinching 15 more points than Maria (29-14). Karolina lost 5 points on serve (12-5). On the other side, the Greek conceded 17 points on serve (9-17).

Sakkari clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, Maria broke back in the 4^th (2-2) game before bringing the set at the breaker that she won 11-9.

Tiebreak

Maria won 8 minibreaks in the 2^nd (2-0), 3^rd (3-0), 6^th (5-1), 14^th (7-7), 15^th (8-7), 18^th (9-9), 19^th (10-9) and 20^th (11-9) point. On the other side, Muchova won 5 minibreaks in the 8^th (3-5), 9^th (4-5), 12^th (6-6), 13^th (7-6) and 16^th (8-8) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 6-6, 6-7, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 9-8, 9-9, 10-9, 11-9

Sakkari was flawless in converting all her break points in the 4^th (1-2 30-40), the 8^th (4-3 40-A and 40-A) and the 10^th game (5-4 15-40 and 30-40). The Greek saved 2 set points when she was 5-6 and 6-7 down. On the other side, Muchova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 3^rd game (1-1 15-40).

They played 95 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Sakkari won just 3 more points than the Czech (49-46). Sakkari conceded 13 points on serve (26-13). on the other side of the net, Karolina conceded 23 points on serve (33-23).

Pavlyuchenkova conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Muchova in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the Czech was not done to come back to break the Greek 4 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (3-3), in the 10^th (5-5) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Maria was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-5 to 7-5.

The Czech converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4^th (1-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 6^th (2-3 30-40), the 10^th (4-5 15-40) and the 12^th game (6-5 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Maria was perfect in converting all her break points in the 1^st (0-0 30-40), the 5^th (2-2 15-40) and the 7^th game (3-3 15-40).

They played 66 points. Karolina was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than Sakkari (35-31). The Czech lost 15 points on serve (16-15). Regarding the other side of the net, Maria conceded 19 points on serve (16-19).

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