Anett Kontaveit survives Iga Swiatek 6-4 7-62 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Kontaveit will face off with Ashleigh Barty in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Swiatek overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Kontaveit in the 1st game (1-0). However, Anett refused to bow to come back to break the Pole in the 2nd (1-1) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Swiatek lost the 10th game (6-4) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.
2nd set.
Swiatek took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Kontaveit in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Anett was not done to come back to break Swiatek in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 2.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Anett scored 84 points vs. the Pole’s 75 points.
Kontaveit was pretty effective in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6). On the other side, Swiatek was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 27% of her break points (3/11). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Kontaveit and Swiatek is 1-0 for Anett.
Next Match: Anett Kontaveit vs. Ashleigh Barty – H2H and stats
Kontaveit will come up against Barty in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Anett Kontaveit and Ashleigh Barty face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Kontaveit and Barty (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Barty won 6-3 6-3 in the semifinal in Miami back in March 2019.
