Marta Kostyuk soars past Heather Watson 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Seoul on Wednesday after playing an impressive match to play Diana Shnaider in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Seoul
Kostyuk's Record

The Ukrainian added to her prize money $ 11,320 after winning this match. She has already won $ 24,910 after this win. If she wins the next match, Kostyuk will add $ 26,295 to her earnings to get in total $ 51,205 in total.

Highlights Marta Kostyuk vs. Heather Watson Korea Open – Seoul

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Kostyuk
Watson
6-2 6-2
1h:15
61
61
Total points
39
39
19
19
Winners
11
11
31%
31%
Ratio Winners
28%
28%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
1
1
2
2
Double Faults
4
4
50%
50%
1st in
39%
39%
86%
86%
1st won
50%
50%
19/22
19/22
1st won
11/22
11/22
50%
50%
2nd won
41%
41%
11/22
11/22
2nd won
14/34
14/34
-- Break Points --
5/8
5/8
Total
1/1
1/1
63%
63%
Won
100%
100%
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At the end of the match, the Ukrainian scored 61 points vs. Watson’s 39.

Kostyuk

Marta served extremely well to win 86% of the points (19/22) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (11/22) on her second serve. The Ukrainian didn’t lose the focus when converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8).

Watson

On the other side, Watson was fantastic in converting the only break point that she converted. Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Kostyuk and Watson is 2-0 for Marta.

Draw and next match H2H: Marta Kostyuk vs. Diana Shnaider – stats

Kostyuk will come up against Shnaider in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Marta Kostyuk and Diana Shnaider since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
Kostyuk HTML
KostyukWatson
HTML
K
0
0
W
0
0

Kostyuk had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Heather Watson in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for the Ukrainian to win the set as Watson found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Marta kept her cool to break the Brit in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

Watson lost the 7th game (5-2) when she had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0. Watson was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-2 to 6-2.

Kostyuk converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (3-1 30-40), the 7th (4-2 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th

game (6-1 15-40). On the other side, heather was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 2nd game (0-1 15-40).

They contested 57 points. Kostyuk was the one to win the set after conquering 15 more points than heather (36-21). Kostyuk conceded 8 points on serve (14-8). on the other side of the court, the Brit conceded 22 points on serve (13-22).

2nd Set -
Kostyuk Not
Not
0
0
0
0

Kostyuk conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Heather Watson in the 2nd

game (2-0). That break was enough for Marta to win the set (6-2) as there were no other breaks.

They played 44 points. The Ukrainian was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Watson (25-19). Marta conceded 6 points on serve (16-6). On the losing side, the Brit conceded 9 points on serve (13-9).

1st
Kostyuk
Watson
6-2
6
2
5
2
4
2
3
2
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
2nd
Kostyuk
Watson
6-2
6
2
5
2
5
1
4
1
3
1
2
1
2
0
1
0

Tennis Scores in Seoul

  • Marta KostyukKostyuk – Heather WatsonWatson (6-2 6-2)
  • Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-2 7-5)
  • Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Carol ZhaoZhao (6-3 6-3)
  • Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-4 6-2)

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