Anett Kontaveit annihilates Simona Halep 6-2 6-3 in the final in Cluj-Napoca on Sunday after playing a great match to win her 5th career title, the 4th of this season. The match lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes. This is the first time that Anett conquered this tournament. She has never played this tournament so far.
Highlights Anett Kontaveit vs. Simona Halep Transylvania Open – Cluj-Napoca
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:10
At the end of the match, Kontaveit scored 64 points vs. Halep’s 46.
Kontaveit
Anett won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.
Halep
On the other side, Simona was effective at converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Kontaveit and Halep is 1-3 for Simona.
This was the 5th career title for the Estonian. She won the previous title in Moscow. (see list of titles and finals). Simona remains with 22nd titles. (see list of titles and finals)
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Anett was in much better shape than Simona and without too much hustling she won 6-2. Halep broke the Estonian 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (5-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, Anett broke her opponent in the 7th (5-2) game, but that didn’t stop her to conquer the set (6-2).
Anett failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 15.
An important stage of this set was when the Estonian won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the game count from 1-1 to 5-1.
Anett converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40), the 6th (4-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). In addition on the other side, Halep converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 40-A) and the 7th game (1-5 15-40).
They played 47 points. Kontaveit conquered the set after winning 11 points more than Simona (29-18). Anett conceded 10 points on serve (15-10). Regarding the other side of the net, the Romanian conceded 14 points on serve (8-14).
conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Simona Halep in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Kontaveit managed to stage a good comeback to break Halep in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
One of the most important stints of the set was when Kontaveit won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to bring the scoreline from 0-2 to 5-2.
Kontaveit converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (3-2 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Halep was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 0-40).
They contested 60 points. The Estonian conquered the set after winning 8 points more than Simona (34-26). Anett lost 9 points on serve (17-9). In addition, on the other side, the Romanian conceded 17 points on serve (17-17).
