TENNIS SCORES. Anett Kontaveit overcomes Tomljanovic in the 2nd round in New York

Anett Kontaveit ousts Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6 7-5 6-2 in the 2^nd round in New York on Thursday. Kontaveit will play Belinda Bencic in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Tomljanovic came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Kontaveit in the 1^st game (1-0). However, there was more work to do for the Croatian to win the set because Anett managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 6^th (3-3) game. Tomljanovic maintained her focus to break Kontaveit in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before managing to win the set (6-4).

Kontaveit lost the 5^th game (3-2) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

2^nd set.

The Estonian won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 9^th (5-4) game. Anett broke back 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 12^th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Estonian won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.

3^rd set.

The Estonian in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay the Croatian and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Ajla in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

After this contest, the head to head between Kontaveit and Tomljanovic is 2-0 for Anett.

Highlights Anett Kontaveit vs. Ajla Tomljanovic U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Anett Kontaveit vs. Belinda Bencic – stats

Kontaveit will square off with Bencic in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Anett Kontaveit and Belinda Bencic since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

The last time that they played, Bencic won 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Wimbledon (juniors) back in 2013.

Tennis Scores at the US Open

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• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Simona HalepHalep (2-6 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 4-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-7³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Johanna KontaKonta – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Alize CornetCornet (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnAhn – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Shuai PengPeng (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Donna VekicVekic – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-6⁵ 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Lauren DavisDavis (6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Caty McNallyMcNally (5-7 6-3 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Donna VekicVekic (0-3) – See H2H details
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Kiki BertensBertens (1-2) – See H2H details
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-1) – See H2H details
• Kristie AhnAhn – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Madison KeysKeys (1-1) – See H2H details
• Johanna KontaKonta – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-1) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (1-1) – See H2H details
• Fiona FerroFerro – Qiang WangWang (1-3) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Ashleigh BartyBarty (1-2) – See H2H details