TENNIS SCORES. Kurumi Nara stuns Maria in the 1st round in Hiroshima

Kurumi Nara shocks Tatjana Maria 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in Hiroshima on Tuesday. Nara will play Mihaela Buzarnescu in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Maria had a favorable start in this set after breaking Nara in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, Nara managed to stage a good comeback to break the German 3 times in the 5^th (2-3), in the 7^th (3-4) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

The German was unable to find the solution in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).

2^nd set.

Nara enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Maria in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Japanese to win the set since Maria found the way to break back in the 8^th (3-5) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Kurumi won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Nara scored 75 points vs. the German’s 64 points.

The Japanese didn’t lose the concentration in converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9). On the other side, the German was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 25% of her break points (3/12). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Nara and Maria is 1-1.

Next Match: Kurumi Nara vs. Mihaela Buzarnescu – stats

Nara will fight against Buzarnescu in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Kurumi Nara and Mihaela Buzarnescu since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Hiroshima

• Nao HibinoHibino – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-7² 7-6⁵ 7-5) – See score progression
• Zoe HivesHives – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Kurumi NaraNara – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Risa OzakiOzaki (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Junri NamigataNamigata (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Varvara FlinkFlink – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Ayano ShimizuShimizu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Priscilla HonHon – Katarzyna KawaKawa (6-0 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (2-2) – See H2H details
• Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Kurumi NaraNara (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Zoe HivesHives (0-0) – See H2H details
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Nao HibinoHibino (2-0) – See H2H details
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details