Venus Williams surprises Camila Giorgi 7-6(5) 4-6 7-6(6) in the 1st round in Birmingham on Monday. Williams will fight against Jelena Ostapenko or Linda Noskova in the 2nd round. The epic lasted 3 hours and 17 minutes. Her best achievement in this competition was reaching the quarter in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
The American added to her prize money $ 1,116 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 3,920 after this win. If she wins the next match, the American will add $ 2,498 to her earnings to get in total $ 6,418 in total.
Highlights Venus Williams vs. Camila Giorgi Rothesay Classic – Birmingham
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
3h:17
Venus won this match even if she conquered less points than the Italian (121 vs. 122).
Williams
Venus won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Giorgi
On the other side, the Italian was effective when converting 56% of the break points that she procured points (5/9). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Williams and Giorgi is 3-0 for Venus.
Draw and next match H2H: Venus Williams vs. Jelena Ostapenko or Linda Noskova – stats
Williams will face either Jelena Ostapenko or Linda Noskova in the 2nd round. The head to head is 2-0 vs. Jelena Ostapenko and 0-0 vs. Linda Noskova.
Live score progression and stats
Williams was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Camila Giorgi in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Williams to win the set since Camila found the way to break back in the 4th (1-3), in the 9th (4-5), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The American kept her focus to break Camila in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (7-6).
Williams failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.
They contested 86 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than Camila (47-39). The American surrendered 14 points on serve (27-14). on the other side of the court, Giorgi conceded 20 points on serve (25-20).
Williams had a strong start of this set after breaking Camila Giorgi in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Giorgi to win the set since Venus found the way to break back in the 7th (3-4) game.
They played 55 points. The Italian won 5 more points than Venus (30-25). Camila dropped 9 points on serve (16-9). on the other side of the net, Venus conceded 14 points on serve (16-14).
Williams started the set strong after breaking Camila Giorgi in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, that was not enough for the American to win the set as the Italian succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3), in the 6th (2-4), in the 9th (4-5) and in the 12th (6-6) game. Williams maintained her focus before winning the set at the tiebreak at 6.
Tiebreak
The American won 5 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 3rd (2-1), 5th (3-2), 11th (6-5) and 14th (8-6) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
They played 75 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 9 points more than Giorgi (42-33). The American dropped 9 points on serve (24-9). On the losing side, Camila conceded 18 points on serve (24-18).
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