Taylor Townsend obliterates Natalija Kostic 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in New York on Monday after playing a remarkable match to square off with Veronica Cepede Royg in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Kostic overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Townsend in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, Taylor found the way to come back to break the Serbian 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (4-3) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Natalija couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2nd set.

Townsend didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Kostic in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, that was not enough for Townsend to win the set since Kostic succeeded in breaking back in the 40th (40]-[A) game. The American kept her focus to break the Serbian in the 40th ([A-40]) game before conquering the set (6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Taylor scored 66 points vs. Natalija’s 46 points.

Taylor didn’t lose the focus when converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, the Serbian was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 25% of her break points (1/4). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this encounter, the head to head between Townsend and Kostic is 1-0 for Taylor.

Next Match: Taylor Townsend vs. Veronica Cepede Royg – stats

Townsend will play Cepede Royg in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Taylor Townsend and Veronica Cepede Royg since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.

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