Ekaterina Alexandrova hustles Elina Svitolina 6-4 7-5 in the 2nd round in Berlin on Wednesday. Alexandrova will fight against Belinda Bencic in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes.
Alexandrova added to her prize money € 5,888 after conquering this match. She has won already € 12,500 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Russian will add € 13,630 to her earnings to get in total € 26,130 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ekaterina scored 80 points vs. the Ukrainian’s 68.
Alexandrova
Ekaterina served extremely well to win 80% of the points (41/51) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 38% points (8/21) on her second serve. Ekaterina was pretty good at converting 60% of the break points that she procured (3/5).
Svitolina
On the other side, the Ukrainian was not so effective in converting her break points (only 14% – 1/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Alexandrova and Svitolina is 1-3 for Elina.
Draw and next match H2H: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Belinda Bencic – stats
Alexandrova will face Bencic in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Belinda Bencic fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on grass.
The last time that they played, Alexandrova won 6-1 7-5 in the 2nd round in Stuttgart back in April 2021.
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 the Russian clinched in the 7th game (4-3) prior to eventually winning the set (6-4).
Alexandrova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (3-3 15-40). On the other side, the Russian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 55 points. Alexandrova was the one to win the set after conquering 9 more points than Elina (32-23). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (20-4). On the other side, Svitolina conceded 12 points on serve (19-12).
Ekaterina won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 6th (2-4) game, The Russian broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game to win the set 7-5.
Elina surrendered the 9th game (4-5) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve. The Ukrainian was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 2-5 to 7-5.
They contested 89 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Russian won just 3 more points than Elina (46-43). Alexandrova conceded 19 points on serve (25-19). On the losing side, Elina conceded 21 points on serve (24-21).
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- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 1-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
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