Katerina Siniakova upsets Marie Bouzkova 1-6 7-6(5) 7-6(4) in the final in Nanchang on Sunday in what was an all-Czech contest. The epic lasted 3 hours and 33 minutes to become the longest WTA final of the season. She won this tournament after playing this event for the first time in her career. Katerina saved 3 championship points.
Siniakova added $ 14,002 to her prize money after winning this final. She has earned $ 34,228 in total after winning this tournament.
Highlights Katerina Siniakova vs. Marie Bouzkova Jiangxi Open – Nanchang
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
3h:33
Siniakova won this contest even if she conquered less points than Marie (112 vs. 123).
Siniakova
Siniakova won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points as she converted only 46% (6/13) of the procured opportunities.
Bouzkova
On the other side, Marie was pretty effective at converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (8/12). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Siniakova and Bouzkova is 2-0 for Katerina.
This was the 5th career title for Siniakova. She won the previous title in Bad Homburg. (see list of titles and finals). Bouzkova 3rd remains with 1 title after she conquered the tournament in Prague 2022. (see list of titles and finals)
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Siniakova conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Marie Bouzkova in the 2nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for Bouzkova to win the set as Siniakova succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Bouzkova kept her cool to break Katerina in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Siniakova was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 2-1 to 6-1.
Bouzkova was flawless in converting all her break points in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-1 30-40), the 6th (4-1 40-A) and the 8th game (6-0 30-40). On the other side, Siniakova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 40-A).
They contested 52 points. Marie won 16 points more than Siniakova (34-18). Marie surrendered 8 points on serve (16-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Siniakova conceded 18 points on serve (10-18).
Siniakova won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 5th (2-3) game, Siniakova broke back in the 10th (5-5) game to win the set 7-6.
Katerina converted 12% of her break points (1/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 7th (3-4 30-40), the 10th (4-5 30-40 and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Marie converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 5th (2-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 40-A).
They contested 110 points. This set was so close that, Katerina won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. Katerina lost 20 points on serve (29-20). Regarding the other side of the net, Bouzkova conceded 26 points on serve (35-26).
Katerina won the set after recovering 3 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve 3 times in the 4th (1-3), in the 8th (3-5) and in the 12th (6-6) game, Katerina broke back 3 times in the 5th (2-3), in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before bringing the set at the breaker that she won 7-4.
Katerina failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.
Marie lost the 5th game (2-3) when she had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.
Tiebreak
Siniakova won 5 minibreaks in the 3rd (1-2), 4th (2-2), 7th (4-3), 8th (5-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Bouzkova won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 2nd (2-0), 5th (3-2) and 9th (4-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Katerina converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-3 40-A and 40-A), the 9th (3-5 40-A) and the 10th game (5-5 0-40). Moreover, on the other side, Bouzkova converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had her opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40 and 15-40), the 8th (4-3 30-40) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40).
They played 73 points. Siniakova was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Marie (39-34). Siniakova lost 18 points on serve (19-18). In addition, on the other side, Marie conceded 20 points on serve (16-20).
