Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 3
Recap and stats from all Women's singles second round matches
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The quest for Gold at the Paris Olympics continued on monday with all 16 2nd round matches taking place.
Here are some short notes:
A couple of seeds were eliminated: 5th seed Jessica Pegula won the first set but lost to Elina Svitolina in the night session on court Philippe Chatrier; 14th Beatriz Haddad Maia fell in straight-sets to Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
Top-seeds Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff progressed with similar 6-1 6-1 wins.
Angelique Kerber defeated Jaqueline Cristian in a close match to keep her last career event going (faces Leylah Fernandez next).
In the Haddad Maia vs Schmiedlova match, chair umpire Nico Helwerth was replaced mid-match so that he could rush home for the birth of his first child.
Iga Swiatek vs Diane Parry
(Poland, rank 1) vs (France, rank 52)
Swiatek won 76% of serve points, did not face a break point.
Swiatek held a game point in all 14 games played.
Maria Lourdes Carlé vs Coco Gauff
(Argentina, rank 89) vs (USA, rank 2)
Gauff won 60% of serve and return points.
Gauff held break point in all return games; only conceded break points when serving for the first set and the match.
Magda Linette vs Jasmine Paolini
(Poland, rank 48) vs (Italy, rank 5)
Paolini only lost 8 of 37 serve points.
With 22 winners plus 3 aces, Paolini finished +4 in the total winners-to-unforced errors differential.
Linette could only counter with 15 winners while making 28 unforced errors.
Jessica Pegula vs Elina Svitolina
(USA, rank 6) vs (Ukraine, rank 31)
Big difference at the net: Pegula 6-for-13 (46%), Svitolina 12-for-16 (75%).
Over the last 2 sets, Svitolina did not lose serve. She broke Pegula twice in each of those sets.
Arantxa Rus vs Qinwen Zheng
(Netherlands, rank 62) vs (China, rank 7)
Zheng with a 12-4 advantage in winners.
Rus accumulated 25 unforced errors.
Despite making less than 50% of 1st serves, Zheng still won 65% of serve points and held serve in 8 of 9 games.
Maria Sakkari vs Yuan Yue
(Greece, rank 8) vs (China, rank 40)
Sakkari fired 15 winners with only 6 unforced errors.
Yue struck 8 winners with 13 unforced errors. She also made 10 more forced errors.
Big difference in 1st serve win percentages: Sakkari 81% / Yue 37%.
Caroline Wozniacki vs Danielle Collins
(Denmark, rank 73) vs (USA, rank 9)
Both players used very different ways to finish with positive total winners-to-unforced errors differentials.
Collins fired 45 winners while committing 26 unforced errors. She also had 7 aces and 7 double faults.
With totals of 6 unforced errors plus 2 doubles faults, Wozniacki averaged 2 unforced errors and less than a double fault per set.
Wang Xinyu vs Barbora Krejcikova
(China, rank 36) vs (Czechia, rank 10)
Krejcikova hit 19 winners and 19 unforced errors. Wang finished with 12 and 27.
Krejcikova made more 1st serves (70% vs 48%) and won more 1st serve points (67% vs 54%).
Krejcikova held break points in 7 of 9 return games, for 6 breaks. In addition, she managed to rescue 3 serve games after facing break point.
Emma Navarro vs Viktoriya Tomova
(USA, rank 15) vs (Bulgaria, rank 49)
Helped by 39 winners and 1 ace, Navarro finished with a +10 total winners-to-unforced errors differential.
Tomova was penalized by 36 unforced, to finish -18.
Navarro reached break point in 10 of 15 return games, broke 8 times. Tomova was a perfect 4-for-4 on break points.
Clara Burel vs Marta Kostyuk
(France, rank 44) vs (Ukraine, rank 19)
Winners: 29-15 for Kostyuk.
Both players had chances to take the opening set: Kostyuk led 5-3 in the first set, failed to convert 2 set points in the 8th game and another SP in the 9th. Burel won 3 straight games, had her own SP serving at 6-5. Finally, Kostyuk broke to force a tie-break.
Donna Vekic vs Bianca Andreescu
(Croatia, rank 21) vs (Canada, rank 171)
Unforced errors: 12-22 in favour of Vekic.
With 20 winners and 2 aces, Vekic was +6 in total winners-to-unforced errors differential.
Andreescu struggled on serve: won 44% of serve points and held in only 3 of 10 games.
Beatriz Haddad Maia vs Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
(Brazil, rank 22) vs (Slovakia, rank 70)
Schmiedlova with a 21-13 advantage in winners. She also served 2 aces.
Both players made more winners than unforced errors.
Haddad Maia faced break points in 8 of 10 serve games. She won only 42% of 1st serve points and 28% of 2nd serve points.
Wang Xiyu vs Diana Shnaider
(China, rank 54) vs (rank 23)
From 2-3 down in set 1, Wang won 9 straight games, all the way to a 6-3 5-0 lead.
Wang hit 20 winners with only 7 unforced errors (5 double faults not included).
There was a big difference in winning percentages behind 1st serves: Wang 84% / Shnaider 54%.
Wang faced a single break point. Shnaider faced break points in 7 of 8 serve games.
Cristina Bucsa vs Leylah Fernandez
(Spain, rank 60) vs (Canada, rank 24)
Fernandez made 7 more unforced errors but she was able to induce 16 more forced errors.
Both players won below 50% of 1st serve points. Fernandez won 50% of 2nd serve points, Bucsa was limited to 27%.
Fernandez reached break point in 8 of 11 return games, for 7 breaks.
Camila Osorio vs Dayana Yastremska
(Colombia, rank 84) vs (Ukraine, rank 26)
With returners winning 55% of points, there were 15 breaks in 22 games.
Osorio reached break points in 9 of 11 return games.
Yastremska hit 25 winners but also 45 unforced errors.
Jaqueline Cristian vs Angelique Kerber
(Romania, rank 61) vs (Germany, rank 217)
Great level with both players finishing with positive total winners-to-unforced errors differentials.
Kerber had 31 winners plus 2 aces with 15 unforced errors and 3 double faults.
Cristian attacked the net 27 times, winning 19 points.
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