TENNIS SCORES. Die-hard Linette outlasts Kanepi in the 1st round of the Bronx Open

Magda Linette survives Kaia Kanepi 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in New York on Monday after conquering a huge battle. Linette will fight against Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Linette got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Kanepi in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Magda improved her lead after breaking Kaia in the 8^th (6-2) game before conquering the set.

2^nd set.

Kanepi was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Linette in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Magda managed to stage a great comeback to break the Estonian 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 10^th (5-5) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

The Estonian was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Pole scored 76 points vs. Kanepi’s 61 points.

Linette was effective when converting 71% of the break points that she conquered (5/7). On the other side, Kaia was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this contest, the head to head between Linette and Kanepi is 1-0 for Magda.

Next Match: Magda Linette vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich – stats

Linette will come up against Sasnovich in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Magda Linette and Aliaksandra Sasnovich face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Sasnovich (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Sasnovich won 5-7 7-6² 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Indian Wells back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in New York

• Magda LinetteMagda – Kaia KanepiKaia (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuLin – Yulia PutintsevaYulia (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Alison Van UytvanckAlison (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFiona – Viktorija GolubicViktorija (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Shuai ZhangShuai (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra – Polona HercogPolona (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Laura SiegemundLaura (3-6 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnKristie – Jil TeichmannJil (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Anna BlinkovaAnna – Coco VandewegheCoco (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Alize CornetAlize – Kateryna KozlovaKateryna (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Veronika KudermetovaVeronika (6-0 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Qiang WangQiang – Fiona FerroFiona (2-1) – See H2H details
• Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Camila GiorgiCamila (2-3) – See H2H details
• Alize CornetAlize – Lin ZhuLin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Kristie AhnKristie (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteMagda – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (0-2) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Barbora StrycovaBarbora (0-1) – See H2H details