Maria Sakkari tops Xiyu Wang 6-2 7-6(6) in the 1st round in Nottingham on Monday. Sakkari will play Alize Cornet in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 42 minutes. Her best result in this event was reaching the quarter in 2017, 2019 and 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Xiyu Wang Rothesay Open – Nottingham
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Maria scored 77 points vs. Wang’s 64.
Sakkari
Sakkari served very well to win 79% of the points (30/38) behind her first serve, and she won 52% points (13/25) on her second serve. Sakkari won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points after she converted only 27% (3/11) of the procured opportunities.
Wang
On the other side, Xiyu was fantastic in converting the only break point that she converted. However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Wang is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Alize Cornet – stats
Sakkari will square off with Cornet in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Maria Sakkari and Alize Cornet face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sakkari won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in St. Petersburg back in 2020.
Live score progression and stats
Maria in this set was too good for Wang and without struggling too much she won 6-2 after breaking the Chinese in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Maria failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 30.
Xiyu lost the 6th game (4-2) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0. The Chinese was eclipsed in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Sakkari converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40). On the other side, the Chinese wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 9th game (1-6 30-40).
They contested 57 points. The Greek conquered the set after winning 7 points more than Wang (32-25). Maria dropped 11 points on serve (18-11). On the other side, the Chinese conceded 14 points on serve (14-14).
Sakkari didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Xiyu Wang in the 2nd game (2-0). That was decisive for Sakkari to win the set (7-6) as no one dropped a serve anymore.
Sakkari missed the opportunity to break Wang in the 12th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
Sakkari won 5 minibreaks in the 5th (2-3), 9th (4-5), 10th (5-5), 13th (7-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, the Chinese won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 7th (5-2) and 11th (6-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 1-3, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 5-5, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
Maria converted 14% of her break points (1/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 10th (5-4 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Sakkari saved 4 set points when she was 2-5, 3-5, 4-5 and 5-6 down. On the other side, Maria didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 84 points. Maria was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Xiyu (45-39). Sakkari lost 11 points on serve (22-11). on the other side of the net, Xiyu conceded 23 points on serve (28-23).
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