Varvara Flink conquers Mai Hontama 6-3 6-710 6-3 in the qualifications in Osaka on Saturday. Flink will play against Katarzyna Kawa in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Hontama had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Flink in the 2nd game (2-0). However, Varvara managed to stage a good comeback to break Mai 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
A crucial moment of the match was when Varvara won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-2 to 4-2.
2nd set.
Hontama was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Flink in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Mai to win the set as Varvara found the way to break back in the 4th (1-3), in the 8th (4-4) and in the 12th (6-6) game. Hontama kept her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 10.
Hontama failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.
3rd set.
Flink was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Hontama in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, there was more work to do for Flink to win the set as Mai managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (2-4) game. Flink maintained her focus to break Hontama in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Flink scored 125 points vs. Hontama’s 109 points.
The Russian won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 42% (10/24). On the other side, Hontama was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 46% of her break points (6/13). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Flink and Hontama is 1-0 for Varvara.
Next Match: Varvara Flink vs. Katarzyna Kawa – stats
Flink will play Kawa in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Varvara Flink and Katarzyna Kawa since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Osaka
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Mayo HibiHibi (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuki NaitoNaito – Astra SharmaSharma (1-6 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Miharu ImanishiImanishi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Kyoka OkamuraOkamura – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Kurumi NaraNara – Momoko KoboriKobori (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (3-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Xinyun HanHan – Risa OzakiOzaki (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Akiko OmaeOmae (2-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Varvara FlinkFlink – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-710 6-3) – See score progression
- Nicole GibbsGibbs – Ayano ShimizuShimizu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Alize CornetCornet – Kurumi NaraNara (0-1) – See H2H details
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yuki NaitoNaito – Xinyun HanHan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe – Nicole GibbsGibbs (0-0) – See H2H details
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-1) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-2) – See H2H details
- Madison KeysKeys – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-0) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-2) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Misaki DoiDoi (1-1) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – See H2H details
