Amazing Marta Kostyuk mullers Rus in the 1st round to battle vs Watson at the Korea Open. HIGHLIGHTS – SEOUL RESULTS

Marta Kostyuk makes light work of Arantxa Rus 6-3 6-1 in the 1^st round in Seoul on Monday after playing a fantastic match to come up against Heather Watson in the 2^nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes.

Seoul

Kostyuk's Record

The Ukrainian 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, Kostyuk will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.

Highlights Marta Kostyuk vs. Arantxa Rus Korea Open – Seoul

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Kostyuk

Rus

6-3 6-1
1h:18

67

67

Total points

53

53

17

17

Winners

23

23

25%

25%

Ratio Winners

43%

43%

-- Serve --

4

4

Aces

2

2

10

10

Double Faults

4

4

46%

46%

1st in

68%

68%

71%

71%

1st won

50%

50%

17/24

17/24

1st won

23/46

23/46

43%

43%

2nd won

32%

32%

12/28

12/28

2nd won

7/22

7/22

-- Break Points --

6/14

6/14

Total

2/5

2/5

43%

43%

Won

40%

40%

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At the end of the match, the Ukrainian scored 67 points vs. Arantxa’s 53.

Kostyuk

The Ukrainian won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 43% (6/14) of the procured opportunities.

Rus

On the other side, Arantxa had some problems converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Kostyuk and Rus is 2-1 for Marta.

Draw and next match H2H: Marta Kostyuk vs. Heather Watson – stats

Kostyuk will compete against Watson in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Marta Kostyuk and Heather Watson square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kostyuk (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Kostyuk won 6-7³ 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in Brisbane back in 2018.

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

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• 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