Shelby Rogers outlasts Leylah Annie Fernandez 2-6 6-1 7-6(4) in the 4th round in Indian Wells on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Rogers is going to play against Jelena Ostapenko in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 34 minutes. This will be her best result in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2014, 2016 and 2017. Here you can see her history at this event.
Rogers added to her prize money $ 83,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 175,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Shelby will add $ 160,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 335,000 in total.
Highlights Shelby Rogers vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Shelby scored 114 points vs. Leylah Annie’s 107.
Rogers
Shelby won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 31% (5/16) of the procured opportunities.
Fernandez
On the other side, Leylah Annie was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 29% – 4/14). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Rogers and Fernandez is 2-0 for Shelby.
Draw and next match H2H: Shelby Rogers vs. Jelena Ostapenko – stats
Rogers will fight against Ostapenko in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Shelby Rogers and Jelena Ostapenko clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Ostapenko won 4-6 6-3 7-64 in the 2nd round in Charleston back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
Fernandez in this set played a much better tennis than the American and without too much hustling she won 6-2 after breaking Shelby in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
They contested 63 points. The Canadian won 7 points more than the American (35-28). Leylah Annie surrendered 15 points on serve (23-15). On the other side, Shelby conceded 12 points on serve (13-12).
Rogers had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Leylah Annie Fernandez in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the American to win the set as Leylah Annie found the way to break back in the 6th (1-5) game. Shelby maintained her cool to break Fernandez in the 7th (6-1) game.
Shelby failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 15.
One of the most important stints of the set was when Shelby won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
Rogers converted 50% of her break points (4/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 2nd (2-0 30-40), the 5th (4-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Canadian was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (0-5 15-40).
They played 40 points. Shelby won 10 more points than Fernandez (25-15). Shelby lost 7 points on serve (9-7). Regarding the other side of the net, the Canadian conceded 16 points on serve (8-16).
Ostapenko got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Leylah Annie Fernandez in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the American refused to bow to come back to break Leylah Annie in the 2nd (1-1) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
Rogers won 3 minibreaks in the 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2) and 10th (6-4) point. On the other side, Leylah Annie won 2 minibreaks in the 5th (2-3) and 8th (4-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4
They contested 114 points. Shelby was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than the Canadian (59-55). The American conceded 26 points on serve (36-26). on the other side of the court, the Canadian conceded 23 points on serve (29-23).
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