Ekaterina Alexandrova bests Varvara Lepchenko 7-5 3-6 6-0 in the 1st round in Seoul on Monday. Alexandrova will seek to keep on going in this event against Priscilla Hon or Polina Kudermetova in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 2 minutes. The Russian won this tournament once in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Russian added to her prize money $ 3,770 after winning this match. She has already won $ 13,590 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Russian will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.
Highlights Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Varvara Lepchenko Korea Open – Seoul
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 88 points vs. Varvara’s 79.
Alexandrova
The Russian served pretty well to win 76% of the points (28/37) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 40% points (16/40) on her second serve. The Russian was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (7/14).
Lepchenko
On the other side, the American didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Alexandrova and Lepchenko is 1-0 for Ekaterina.
Draw and next match H2H: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Priscilla Hon or Polina Kudermetova – stats
Alexandrova will compete against either Priscilla Hon or Polina Kudermetova in the 2nd round. The head to head is 0-0 vs. Priscilla Hon and 0-0 vs. Polina Kudermetova.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (7-5 3-6 6-0)
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jia-Jing LuLu (6-4 6-4)
- Carol ZhaoZhao – Dayeon BackBack (6-4 6-1)
- Yue YuanYuan – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (4-6 6-2 6-2)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-1)
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Sloane StephensStephens – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Heather WatsonWatson – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (4-2) – H2H details and stats