Petra Kvitová in the 2nd round of the US Open.
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Two-time Wimbledon winner Kvitová made seven double mistakes in the first set, she failed and lost service in the fifth game. At 4: 5, she faced a setball at the opponent’s serve, but turned it away and leveled with her break. The balanced set reached the tie break, in which the Czech Republic already dominated. Despite the initial double error, she won 7: 3.
Thus, Kvitová broke the resistance of the Ukrainian tennis player. In the second set, she improved her service, refined the game, and allowed Kozlov only two games. In total, Jiří Vaňek’s charge scored 33 victories. In the next match, the winner of the duel between the Belgian Kirsten Flipkens and the home Jessica Pegula awaits her.
Petra Kvitová’s efforts in the 2nd round of the US Open in New York.
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On the contrary, Vondroušová, the finalist of last year’s Roland Garros, paid for the unsuccessful transformation of breakballs. She didn’t use any of the six, while her opponent took advantage of half of the eight chances from the beginning of the second hundred.
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Czech tennis player Markéta Vondroušová.
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Twenty-one-year-old Vondroušová also confirmed at the New York Grand Slam that she was not succeeding after the coronavirus break. The current world nineteen before the US Open lost in Palermo and in the general in New York in the first round. This time she overcame the initial obstacle, but on Wednesday she already hit. “Today was a bad day. I showed up more or less, she didn’t even have to play much,” Vondroušová told a Czech conference in a video conference.
Even with breakball’s chances, when she could turn the match around, she failed. “In general, I spoiled the returns today, it wasn’t optimal. When I needed to get the ball there, I didn’t get it there,” she complained. It does not repeat the eighth finals from 2018, when it last appeared on the local concrete courts.
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Karolína Plíšková in the opening round of the US Open.
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Karolína Plíšková, the number one deployed, will appear as the last of the Czech tennis players on Wednesday. In the first round in the first round, the world number three dealt with the Ukrainian Kalininová, her opponent similarly easily with the Italian Paoliniová.
Both players have met six times on the circuit with a balanced balance of 3: 3. The last time the tennis players clashed in 2018 was in the finals of the tournament in Tian Yin, China, where Garcia won.
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