Daria Kasatkina hustles Cori Gauff 7-6(6) 6-3 in the Round Robin in Fort Worth on Thursday. Kasatkina will try to keep the momentum against Caroline Garcia in the Round Robin. The epic lasted 3 hours and 2 minutes.
Highlights Daria Kasatkina vs. Cori Gauff WTA Finals – Fort Worth
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Darya scored 78 points vs. Gauff’s 65.
Kasatkina
The Russian was pretty good at converting 60% of the break points that she procured (6/10).
Gauff
On the other side, Coco was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered points (5/8). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Kasatkina and Gauff is 3-0 for Darya.
Draw and next match H2H: Daria Kasatkina vs. Caroline Garcia – stats
Kasatkina will fight against Garcia in the Round Robin.
This will be the 3rd time that Daria Kasatkina and Caroline Garcia clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kasatkina and Garcia (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kasatkina won 3-6 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in San Jose back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Kasatkina had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Cori Gauff in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set because the American succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) and in the 12th (6-6) game. Darya maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 6.
The Russian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 40.
Notwithstanding also the American won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1
Tiebreak
Darya won 6 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 5th (2-3), 8th (4-4), 9th (5-4), 13th (7-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, the American won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 6th (4-2) and 10th (5-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 1-3, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
Kasatkina converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (2-4 15-40) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40 and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Gauff converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 0-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 98 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than Gauff (52-46). Kasatkina surrendered 24 points on serve (23-24). Regarding the other side of the net, the American conceded 29 points on serve (22-29).
Kasatkina had a favorable start in this set after breaking Cori Gauff in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more work to do for Darya to win the set because Gauff found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (2-3) game. Darya kept her cool to break Gauff in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game before conquering the set (6-3).
The Russian converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (2-1 15-40) and the 6th game (3-2 30-40). On the other side, Coco was perfect in converting all her break points in the 3rd (0-2 0-40) and the 4th game (1-3 30-40).
They contested 47 points. Darya won 7 points more than Coco (27-20). The Russian lost 11 points on serve (14-11). In addition, on the other side, Coco conceded 13 points on serve (9-13).
Tennis Scores in Fort Worth
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Cori GauffGauff (7-66 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Cori GauffGauff (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Jessica PegulaPegula (7-66 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ons JabeurJabeur (3-6 7-65 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Cori GauffGauff (4-0) – H2H details and stats
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-3) – H2H details and stats