TENNIS SCORES. Muchova gets the better of Hsieh in the 2nd round in New York

U.S. OPEN - NEW YORK. Muchova hustles Hsieh to compete against Serena Williams in the 3rd round

Prediction and head to head Karolina Muchova vs. Su-Wei Hsieh

Karolina Muchova defeats Su-Wei Hsieh 6-1 4-6 7-62 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday. Muchova will face Serena Williams in the 3rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Muchova took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Hsieh in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Czech to win the set as Su-Wei found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. The Czech maintained her focus to break Su-Wei in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.

Su-Wei lost the 5th game (4-1) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

Su-Wei was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

2nd set.

Hsieh had a favorable start in this set after breaking Muchova in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for Su-Wei to win the set because Karolina succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (3-3) game. Hsieh maintained her cool to break Karolina in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

3rd set.

The Czech won the set after she broke Hsieh in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. The Chinese tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Nonetheless, the Czech managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set at the following breaker at 2.

Karolina was unable to break Su-Wei in the 12th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Karolina scored 104 points vs. Su-Wei’s 83 points.

Karolina struck 11 aces and she committed 2 double faults. Karolina was sharp when converting 54% of the break points that she procured (7/13). On the other side, the Chinese had some problems in converting her break points since she converted only 45% of her break points (5/11). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Muchova and Hsieh is 2-0 for Karolina.

Highlights Karolina Muchova vs. Su-Wei Hsieh U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Karolina Muchova vs. Serena Williams – stats

Muchova will take on Williams in the 3rd round.

There is no head to head record between Karolina Muchova and Serena Williams since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

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