TENNIS SCORES. Konta dispatches Pliskova in the 4th round of the U.S. Open

Johanna Konta topples Karolina Pliskova 6-7¹ 6-3 7-5 in the 4^th round in New York on Sunday. Konta will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Elina Svitolina in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Konta took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Pliskova in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Pliskova managed to stage a great comeback to break Johanna in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 1.

2^nd set.

Pliskova was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Konta in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Konta found the way to come back to break Pliskova 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

The Czech was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

3^rd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Johanna conquered in the 11^th game (6-5) before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Konta scored 104 points vs. the Czech’s 96 points.

The Brit won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 33% (5/15). On the other side, the Czech wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 43% of her break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Konta and Pliskova is 2-4 for Karolina.

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Next Match: Johanna Konta vs. Elina Svitolina – stats

Konta will take on Svitolina in the quarter.

This will be the 4^th time that Johanna Konta and Elina Svitolina play each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Svitolina won 6-3 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Montreal back in 2018.

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• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Madison KeysKeys (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Johanna KontaKonta – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-7¹ 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Ashleigh BartyBarty (6-2 6-4) – See score progression

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