Great Cirstea rolls past Kvitova in the 1st round of the Australian Open. HIGHLIGHTS – AUSTRALIAN OPEN RESULTS

AUSTRALIAN OPEN - MELBOURNE DRAW AND RESULTS. Cirstea clobbers Kvitova to fight against Kristina Kucova in the 2nd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Sorana Cirstea vs. Petra Kvitova

Sorana Cirstea powers past Petra Kvitova 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Tuesday after playing a marvellous match to clash against Kristina Kucova in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes. Her best result in this tournament was reaching the 4th round in 2017. Here you can see her history at this event.

Cirstea
Melbourne
Cirstea's Record

Sorana added to her prize money $ 50,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 140,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Romanian will add $ 40,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 180,000 in total.

Highlights Sorana Cirstea vs. Petra Kvitova Australian Open – Melbourne

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Cirstea
Kvitova
Sorana Cirstea
6-2 6-2
1h:11
Petra Kvitova
60
60
Total points
41
41
22
22
Winners
16
16
37%
37%
Ratio Winners
39%
39%
19
19
Unforced
39
39
33%
33%
Ratio Unforced
67%
67%
1/3
1/3
Net Approaches
4/8
4/8
33%
33%
Perc
50%
50%
-- Serve --
2
2
Aces
1
1
1
1
Double Faults
6
6
58%
58%
1st in
55%
55%
73%
73%
1st won
59%
59%
22/30
22/30
1st won
16/27
16/27
64%
64%
2nd won
41%
41%
14/22
14/22
2nd won
9/22
9/22
174
174
Fastest serve
165
165
162
162
AVG 1st Serve
156
156
138
138
AVG 2nd Serve
145
145
-- Break Points --
4/7
4/7
Total
0/2
0/2
57%
57%
Won
0%
0%
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At the end of the match, Cirstea scored 60 points vs. Petra’s 41.

Cirstea

The Romanian was pretty good at converting 57% of the break points that she procured (4/7).

Kvitova

On the other side, Petra wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Cirstea and Kvitova is 4-5 for Petra.

Draw and next match H2H: Sorana Cirstea vs. Kristina Kucova – stats

Cirstea will square off with Kucova in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Sorana Cirstea and Kristina Kucova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cirstea (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Cirstea won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Shenzhen back in 2017.

Sorana Cirstea Draw info

Live score progression and stats

Sorana in this set didn’t concede much to Petra and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking the Czech in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.

Cirstea converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, the Czech was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 6th game (2-3 40-A).

They played 54 points. The Romanian won 6 points more than Petra (30-24). Cirstea conceded 12 points on serve (20-12). on the other side of the court, Kvitova conceded 10 points on serve (12-10).

Sorana in this set was too strong for Petra and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Petra in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.

An important stage of this set was when the Romanian won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to bring the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Sorana converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 4th (3-1 15-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Sorana didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 47 points. The Romanian was the winner of the set after clinching 13 points more than Petra (30-17). Sorana was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the losing side, Petra conceded 14 points on serve (13-14).

 

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