Alize Cornet surprises Garbine Muguruza 4-6 6-3 7-6(5) in the quarter in Berlin on Friday. Cornet will try to keep the momentum against Belinda Bencic in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Cornet added to her prize money € 13,630 after conquering this match. She has won already € 26,130 as of now in this tournament. If she wins the next match, Alize will add € 15,011 to her earnings to get in total € 41,141.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Alize won this contest even if she won the same amount of points of the Spaniard (96 vs. 96).
Cornet
Cornet served pretty well to win 77% of the points (49/64) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 48% points (20/42) on her second serve. The French player was absolutely great in converting all the break points (2/2).
Muguruza
On the other side, Muguruza was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (2/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Cornet and Muguruza is 2-2.
Draw and next match H2H: Alize Cornet vs. Belinda Bencic – stats
Cornet will square off with Bencic in the semifinal.
This will be the 4th time that Alize Cornet and Belinda Bencic square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they locked horns, Bencic won 6-4 1-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in New York back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
Bencic started the set strong after breaking Cornet in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Garbine to win the set because Alize found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Garbine kept her cool to break the French player in the 5th (3-2) game before winning the set (6-4).
The Spaniard was exemplary in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 40-A and 40-A) and the 5th game (2-2 0-40). On the other side, the French player was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 2nd game (0-1 30-40).
They played 61 points. The Spaniard conquered the set after winning 5 points more than Cornet (33-28). Garbine lost 10 points on serve (18-10). on the other side of the court, the French player conceded 15 points on serve (18-15).
Cornet enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Bencic in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That was enough for Alize to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.
They contested 49 points. Cornet conquered the set after winning 7 points more than Garbine (28-21). The French player surrendered 8 points on serve (22-8). On the other side, the Spaniard conceded 6 points on serve (13-6).
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, Cornet won the breaker at 7-5.
Tiebreak
Cornet won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Muguruza won 2 minibreaks in the 10th (4-6) and 11th (5-6) point.
Alize won the tiebreak 7-5 after she conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 4-1, 5-1, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, Garbine wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 10th game (5-4 30-40).
They played 82 points. It’s worth to point out that, Alize won this set even if she scored less points 2 than Garbine (40-42). Alize dropped 14 points on serve (30-14). on the other side of the court, the Spaniard conceded 10 points on serve (28-10).
Tennis Scores in Berlin
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-2 5-7 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-4 4-6 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Madison KeysKeys (7-64 2-6 7-60) – Stats and score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (4-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alize CornetCornet – Belinda BencicBencic (1-2) – H2H details and stats