Marketa Vondrousova topples Mccartney Kessler 7-6(7) 6-2 in the 2nd round in New York on Wednesday. Vondrousova will square off with Jasmine Paolini in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 49 minutes. Her best achievement in this competition was reaching the quarter in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Marketa added to her prize money $ 83,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 237,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Marketa will add $ 163,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 400,000 in total.
Highlights Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mccartney Kessler U.S. Open – New York
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Vondrousova scored 87 points vs. Mccartney’s 78.
Vondrousova
Marketa won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points since she converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Kessler
On the other side, Kessler had some problems converting her break points (only 33% – 3/9). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Vondrousova and Kessler is 2-0 for Marketa.
Draw and next match H2H: Marketa Vondrousova vs. Jasmine Paolini – stats
Vondrousova will take on Paolini in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Marketa Vondrousova and Jasmine Paolini fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vondrousova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Vondrousova won 7-5 6-2 in the qualifications in Biel back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Vondrousova got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Mccartney Kessler in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Czech to win the set since Kessler found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 12th (6-6) game. Marketa kept her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 7.
Marketa failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 40.
Tiebreak
Vondrousova won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2) and 16th (9-7) point. On the other side, the American won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 3rd (2-1) and 6th (3-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 7-7, 8-7, 9-7
Vondrousova converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40). Vondrousova saved 2 set points when she was 4-5 and 6-7 down. Moreover, on the other side, Mccartney converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 0-40), the 8th (4-3 40-A) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 99 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Marketa won only 1 point more than Kessler (50-49). The Czech surrendered 22 points on serve (29-22). on the other side of the net, Kessler conceded 21 points on serve (27-21).
Marketa played at a much higher level than Kessler and without many problems she won 6-2
. Mccartney broke the Czech 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, Marketa broke her opponent in the 5th (3-2) game, but that didn’t stop her to conquer the set (6-2).The Czech converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 6th (3-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Kessler converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had her opportunities in the 5th (1-3 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (2-4 30-40).
They contested 66 points. The Czech won 8 points more than Mccartney (37-29). Marketa surrendered 15 points on serve (20-15). Regarding the other side of the net, Mccartney conceded 17 points on serve (14-17).
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