Marketa Vondrousova brushes past Yulia Putintseva 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday after playing a terrific match to face off with Belinda Bencic in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes. This will be her best result in this competition. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
Vondrousova added to her prize money $ 12,995 after winning this match. She has already won $ 28,695 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Czech will add $ 30,305 to her earnings to get in total $ 59,000 in total.
Highlights Marketa Vondrousova vs. Yulia Putintseva Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open – Abu Dhabi
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Marketa scored 62 points vs. Putintseva’s 47.
Vondrousova
The Czech didn’t lose the focus when converting 71% of the break points that she conquered (5/7).
Putintseva
On the other side, Yulia wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 29% – 2/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Vondrousova and Putintseva is 4-0 for Marketa.
Draw and next match H2H: Marketa Vondrousova vs. Belinda Bencic – stats
Vondrousova will play Bencic in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Marketa Vondrousova and Belinda Bencic face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bencic won 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in Cincinnati back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Vondrousova had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Yulia Putintseva in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Marketa to win the set as Putintseva found the way to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. Vondrousova kept her focus to break Yulia in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Czech failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 30.
Putintseva was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 3-2 to 6-2.
Vondrousova was flawless in converting all her break points in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, the Kazakhstani converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (0-2 30-40) and the 5th game (1-3 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 61 points. Vondrousova was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than Yulia (36-25
). The Czech surrendered 14 points on serve (22-14). On the other side, Putintseva conceded 14 points on serve (11-14).Marketa won the set after she broke Putintseva in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (5-3) game. The Kazakhstani tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Notwithstanding, the Czech managed to stay calm and finish the job to conquer the set 6-3.
The Czech converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (4-3 0-40 and 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, Yulia converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 4th game (1-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 48 points. Vondrousova conquered the set after winning 4 more points than Yulia (26-22). Vondrousova surrendered 11 points on serve (16-11). On the other side, Yulia conceded 10 points on serve (11-10).
Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi
- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (1-6 7-5 6-4)
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Wakana SonobeSonobe (6-3 6-3)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-0 6-0)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (5-7 4-1 ret.)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie VolynetsVolynets (2-6 6-4 6-4)
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Paula BadosaBadosa (6-4 6-1)
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-3)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Lulu SunSun (6-0 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-3) – H2H details and stats
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Magda LinetteLinette – (2-0) – H2H details and stats