Garbine Muguruza routs Mai Hontama 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in Chicago on Friday after playing a marvellous match to deal with Marketa Vondrousova in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Mai Hontama Chicago Fall Tennis Classic – Chicago
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 74 points vs. Mai’s 51.
Muguruza
Garbine won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points since she converted only 47% (7/15) of the procured opportunities.
Hontama
On the other side, Mai didn’t lose the concentration in converting 60% of the break points that she procured points (3/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Muguruza and Hontama is 1-0 for Garbine.
Draw and next match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Marketa Vondrousova – stats
Muguruza will play Vondrousova in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Garbine Muguruza and Marketa Vondrousova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Muguruza won 6-1 6-0 in the semifinal in Melbourne back in February 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Muguruza had a strong start of this set after breaking Mai Hontama in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. However, there was more work to do for the Spaniard to win the set as Hontama succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (2-4) game. Muguruza maintained her focus to break Mai in the 9th (6-3) game.
One of the most important stints of the set was when the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to convert the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Garbine converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 3rd (2-0 0-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Hontama converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 30-40) and the 6th game (1-4 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 65 points. Muguruza was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than the Japanese (38-27). Muguruza surrendered 16 points on serve (22-16). on the other side of the net, Hontama conceded 16 points on serve (11-16).
Vondrousova had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Mai Hontama in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Muguruza found the way to come back to break Hontama 4 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Hontama was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-2 to 6-2.
Muguruza converted 40% of her break points (4/10). She had 10 break points opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 15-40), the 4th (1-2 0-40), the 6th (3-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Mai was perfect in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 3rd game (1-1 30-40).
They played 60 points. Muguruza won 12 points more than the Japanese (36-24). Muguruza lost 13 points on serve (14-13). on the other side of the net, Mai conceded 22 points on serve (11-22).
Tennis Scores in Chicago
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-74 6-0 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Belinda BencicBencic (6-4 3-1 ret.) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-1) – H2H details and stats
