Camila Giorgi powers past Alize Cornet 6-2 6-1 in the quarter in New York on Thursday after playing a superlative match to come up against Qiang Wang in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Camila in this set was too strong for Alize and therefore she won 6-2 after breaking the French Player in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.

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

2nd set.

Giorgi didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Cornet in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The Italian improved her lead after breaking Alize in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Giorgi won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Italian scored 56 points vs. Cornet’s 34 points.

The Italian won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 44%

(4/9). On the other side, the French Player wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Giorgi and Cornet is 4-2 for Camila.

Next Match: Camila Giorgi vs. Qiang Wang – stats

Giorgi will come up against Wang in the semifinal.

This will be the 3rd time that Camila Giorgi and Qiang Wang play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Giorgi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Giorgi won 4-6 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Prague back in 2017.

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