TENNIS SCORES. Muchova hustles Kuzmova in the 1st round of the Bronx Open

Karolina Muchova overcomes Viktoria Kuzmova 7-5 6-2 in the 1^st round in New York on Monday. Muchova will engage against Kristie Ahn in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Czech conquered in the 12^th game (7-5).

2^nd set.

Karolina in this set was in much better shape than Kuzmova and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking Viktoria in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Viktoria was unable to find the solution in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Czech scored 64 points vs. the Slovakian’s 42 points.

Muchova served exceptionally well to win 93% of the points (27/29) behind her first serve, and she won 68% points (13/19) on her second serve. Muchova won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, Viktoria wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Muchova and Kuzmova is 1-0 for Karolina.

Next Match: Karolina Muchova vs. Kristie Ahn – stats

Muchova will play Ahn in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Karolina Muchova and Kristie Ahn since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in New York

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