Garbine Muguruza conquers Sorana Cirstea 7-6(4) 6-1 in the 2nd round in Doha on Monday. Muguruza is going to play against Victoria Azarenka or Madison Brengle in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. Her best achievement in this tournament was reaching the final in 2018 and 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
Muguruza added to her prize money $ 11,435 after winning this match. She has won already $ 26,515 after this win. If she wins the next match, Muguruza will add $ 26,485 to her earnings to get in total $ 53,000 in total.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Sorana Cirstea Qatar TotalEnergies Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 67 points vs. Sorana’s 53.
Muguruza
Garbine won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Cirstea
On the other side, the Romanian was great in converting all her break points (2/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Muguruza and Cirstea is 5-0 for Garbine.
Draw and next match H2H: Garbine Muguruza vs. Victoria Azarenka or Madison Brengle – stats
Muguruza will come up against either Victoria Azarenka or Madison Brengle in the 3rd round. The head to head is 3-2 vs. Victoria Azarenka and 0-0 vs. Madison Brengle.
Live score progression and stats
Azarenka had a racing start in this set after breaking Sorana Cirstea in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, the Spaniard refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Romanian in the 7th (3-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
The Spaniard won 2 minibreaks in the 8th (5-3) and 11th (7-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The Spaniard converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 7th game (2-4 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Cirstea was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 2nd game (3-1 15-40).
They played 80 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Muguruza won just 2 more points than the Romanian (41-39). Garbine lost 9 points on serve (27-9). on the other side of the net, Cirstea conceded 14 points on serve (30-14).
Azarenka had a favorable start in this set after breaking Sorana Cirstea in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Garbine managed to stage a good comeback to break the Romanian 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Cirstea was completely knocked out in the last 6 games of the set when the game count went from 0-1 to 6-1.
The Spaniard converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 0-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40). On the other side, the Romanian was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 15-40).
They played 40 points. The Spaniard was the one to win the set after conquering 12 points more than Cirstea (26-14). Muguruza lost 10 points on serve (13-10). on the other side of the court, Cirstea conceded 13 points on serve (4-13).
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