Elina Svitolina bests Petra Martic 6-4 6-2 in the 4th round in London on Monday. Svitolina is going to play the quarters against Muchova.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Ukrainian won the set after she broke Petra in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Martic tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Yet, Svitolina managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
Svitolina started the set in the best possible way after breaking Martic in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. The Ukrainian reinforced her lead after breaking Martic in the 3rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when Svitolina won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0
At the end of the match, Elina scored 91 points vs. Petra’s 73 points.
Svitolina served very well to win 83% of the points (38/46) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 32% points (9/28) on her second serve. Elina won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, the Croatian was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 20% of her break points (1/5). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Svitolina and Martic is 4-1 for Elina.
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Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Karolina Muchova – H2H and stats
Svitolina will square off with Muchova in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Elina Svitolina and Karolina Muchova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Svitolina won 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in Doha back in February 2019.
Elina Svitolina in London |
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