Karolína Muchová of the Czech Republic, seeded seventh at the WTA 1000 event in Beijing, beat Britain’s Katie Boulter 7-6(3) 6-1 in the round of 64. The straight-sets victory sends Muchová into the round of 32 at the hard-court tournament with a prize fund of $9.4 million. Match statistics are provided by api.tennis.
The first set went to a tiebreak. There, Muchová gave up only three points to her opponent and took the set 7-6. There was significantly less of a contest in the second set: Muchová won it 6-1.
Three meetings, three Muchová wins
According to rank.tennis, Boulter is 54th in the rankings with 1037 points. She began the tournament in Beijing in the round of 128, where she beat Mai Hontama 6-3 6-4. For Muchová, the match against the Brit was her opener in Beijing.
In the head-to-head, the score is now 3:0 in Muchová’s favor. She earned one of those wins in the second round of the US Open by 6-1 6-0. In the next round of that tournament, Muchová lost to Emma Navarro 3-6 5-7.