TENNIS SCORES. Cornet topples Kozlova in the 1st round in New York

Alize Cornet downs Kateryna Kozlova 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in New York on Sunday. Cornet will square off with Lin Zhu in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kozlova enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Cornet in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, the French Player refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Ukrainian in the 6^th (3-3) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Kateryna lost the 10^th game (6-4) when she had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.

2^nd set.

Cornet conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Kozlova in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Alize to win the set because Kozlova found the way to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Cornet maintained her focus to break Kateryna in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

The Ukrainian was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Alize scored 70 points vs. Kozlova’s 50 points.

Alize was effective in converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, Kateryna was effective when converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Cornet and Kozlova is 2-0 for Alize.

Next Match: Alize Cornet vs. Lin Zhu – stats

Cornet will square off with Zhu in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Alize Cornet and Lin Zhu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

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