Simona Halep wins against Aliaksandra Sasnovich 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in Linz on Tuesday. Halep will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Jasmine Paolini in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 38 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2012. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Simona Halep vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich Upper Austria Ladies Linz – Linz
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Simona scored 72 points vs. the Belarussian’s 62.
Halep
Halep was fantastic in converting all the break points (4/4).
Sasnovich
On the other side, Sasnovich was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Halep and Sasnovich is 2-1 for Simona.
Draw and next match H2H: Simona Halep vs. Jasmine Paolini – stats
Halep will compete against Paolini in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Simona Halep and Jasmine Paolini square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Halep won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Rome back in 2020.
Live score progression and stats
Halep took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, that was not enough for Halep to win the set since Sasnovich found the way to break back in the 5th
(1-4) and in the 7th (3-4) game. The Romanian maintained her cool to break Aliaksandra in the 12th (7-5) game.There was an important spell in this set when the Romanian won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to bring the score from 0-0 to 4-0. Anyhow also Aliaksandra won 4 consecutive games from 0-4 to 4-4
They played 76 points. This set was so close that, Halep won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. Halep conceded 19 points on serve (17-19). On the other side, Aliaksandra conceded 21 points on serve (19-21).
Halep had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the 2nd
game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That break defined the set and it was sufficient for Halep to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.They played 55 points. The Romanian won 11 more points than Aliaksandra (33-22). Simona dropped 8 points on serve (23-8). On the other side, Aliaksandra conceded 10 points on serve (14-10).
Tennis Scores in Linz
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (6-1 6-70 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (5-2 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-1 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-0 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Alize CornetCornet (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Alison RiskeRiske (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Simona HalepHalep (0-1) – H2H details and stats