Karolina Pliskova defeats Ana Bogdan 6-4 6-3 in the final in Cluj-Napoka on Sunday. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. She won this tournament after playing this event for the first time in her career.
The Czech added $ 15,420 to her prize money after winning this final. She has earned $ 36,250 in total after winning this tournament.
Highlights Karolina Pliskova vs. Ana Bogdan Transylvania Open – Cluj-Napoca
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:25
At the end of the match, Pliskova scored 64 points vs. the Romanian’s 49.
Pliskova
Pliskova served extremely well to win 78% of the points (29/37) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (7/14) on her second serve. Pliskova won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.
Bogdan
On the other side, Ana was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Pliskova and Bogdan is 4-0 for Karolina.
This was the 17th career title for the Czech. (see list of titles and finals). This was Bogdan’s 1st final. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
Pliskova was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Ana Bogdan in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, the Czech succeeded in coming back to break the Romanian in the 5th (2-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).
Ana was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-4 to 6-4.
Karolina converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-3 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Bogdan converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (3-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (3-2 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 68 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Pliskova won just 2 more points than Ana (35-33). Karolina surrendered 10 points on serve (20-10). on the other side of the court, the Romanian conceded 15 points on serve (23-15).
Pliskova won the set after she broke Ana in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Pliskova converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Pliskova didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 45 points. Pliskova was the one to win the set after conquering 13 points more than the Romanian (29-16). Pliskova conceded 5 points on serve (16-5). Regarding the other side of the net, Bogdan conceded 13 points on serve (11-13).
