Karolina Pliskova hustles Ons Jabeur 6-1 4-6 6-4 in the 3rd round in New York on Friday. Pliskova will face off with Johanna Konta in the 4th round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Pliskova had a favorable start in this set after breaking Jabeur in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Czech to win the set since Ons managed to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. The Czech maintained her focus to break Jabeur in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when Karolina won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
2nd set.
Pliskova had a strong start of this set after breaking Jabeur in the 1st game (1-0). However, the Tunisian managed to stage a great comeback to break the Czech 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
A crucial moment of the match was when Ons won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-2 to 5-2.
3rd set.
Pliskova was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Jabeur in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Pliskova to win the set as the Tunisian succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (2-4) game.
Jabeur lost the 1st game (1-0) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
Statistics
After this encounter, the head to head between Pliskova and Jabeur is 2-0 for Karolina.
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Next Match: Karolina Pliskova vs. Johanna Konta – stats
Pliskova will fight against Konta in the 4th round.
This will be the 6th time that Karolina Pliskova and Johanna Konta square off. The head to head is 4-1 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Pliskova won 6-3 6-4 in the final in Rome back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Petra MarticMartic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
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