Karolina Muchova grounds Kristie Ahn 6-3 6-1 in the 2nd round in New York on Wednesday after playing a remarkable match.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Muchova conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Muchova had a racing start in this set after breaking Ahn in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Anyhow, there was more work to do for Muchova to win the set since Ahn managed to break back in the 6th (1-5) game. Karolina maintained her cool to break Ahn in the 7th (6-1) game.
The Czech failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 40.
A crucial moment of the match was when Muchova won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
After this match, the head to head between Muchova and Ahn is 1-0 for Karolina.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Camila GiorgiCamila – Andrea PetkovicAndrea (3-6 7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraBernarda – Barbora StrycovaBarbora (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Alize CornetAlize – Lin ZhuLin (7-65 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia (6-0 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Kristie AhnKristie (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Qiang WangQiang – Fiona FerroFiona (2-1) – See H2H details
- Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Kristie AhnKristie (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteMagda – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (0-2) – See H2H details
- Camila GiorgiCamila – Alize CornetAlize (3-2) – See H2H details
- Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Bernarda PeraBernarda (2-0) – See H2H details