Die-hard Halep survives Brady in the 2nd round of the Rogers Cup

Simona Halep survives Jennifer Brady 4-6 7-5 7-6⁵ in the 2^nd round in Toronto on Wednesday after winning a huge battle. Halep will fight against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Brady was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Halep in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Jennifer to win the set because the Romanian succeeded in breaking back in the 5^th (2-3) game. The American kept her cool to break Simona in the 10^th (6-4) game.

Jennifer wasted a good opportunity to break Simona in the 6^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Halep conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Brady in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Halep to win the set as Brady found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. The Romanian kept her cool to break Jennifer in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before conquering the set (7-5).

3^rd set.

Halep came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Brady in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. However, there was more to do for the Romanian to win the set as Brady succeeded in breaking back in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 12^th (6-6) game. Halep maintained her focus before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

The Romanian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.

A crucial moment of the match was when Simona won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Notwithstanding also the American won 5 consecutive games from 0-4 to 5-4

Simona won this encounter even if she won less points than Jennifer (107 vs. 110).

The Romanian won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 44% (7/16). On the other side, Brady wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 47% of her break points (7/15). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Halep and Brady is 1-0 for Simona.

Highlights Simona Halep vs. Jennifer Brady Rogers Cup – Toronto

Halep’s Interview

Next Match: Simona Halep vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova – H2H and stats

Halep will play Kuznetsova in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 8^th time that Simona Halep and Svetlana Kuznetsova play each other. The head to head is 4-3 for Halep (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.

The last time that they played, Halep won 3-6 6-1 6-1 in the quarter in Montreal back in 2016.