Diana Shnaider vanquishes Sara Errani 6-2 6-2 in the 3rd round in New York on Saturday after playing a terrific match to come up against Jessica Pegula in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 2 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the qualifications in 2023. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Shnaider added to her prize money $ 110,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 325,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Diana will add $ 205,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 530,000 in total.
Shnaider’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 60 points vs. Errani’s 40.
Shnaider
Shnaider served extremely well to win 75% of the points (27/36) behind her first serve. However she won only 44% points (4/9) on her second serve. The Russian was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8).
Errani
On the other side, Sara was remarkable 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 Shnaider and Errani is 2-0 for Diana.
Draw and next match H2H: Diana Shnaider vs. Jessica Pegula – stats
Shnaider will play Pegula in the 4th round.
This will be the 2nd time that Diana Shnaider and Jessica Pegula clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pegula (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Pegula won 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in Toronto back in August 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Shnaider commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Sara Errani in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, there was more to do for Diana to win the set as Sara managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. The Russian kept her cool to break the Italian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Shnaider converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40), the 3rd (2-1 30-40), the 6th (4-1 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A). On the other side, Errani was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 40-A).
They played 56 points. Shnaider won 10 more points than the Italian (33-23). Shnaider lost 10 points on serve (15-10). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 18 points on serve (13-18).
Diana in this set played much better tennis than Sara and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking Sara in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Errani was dominated in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Diana converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Diana didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 44 points. Diana won 10 more points than the Italian (27-17). Diana was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). On the other side, Errani conceded 11 points on serve (13-11).
Tennis Scores at the U.S. Open
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-1 6-1)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-3 6-3)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-4 6-2)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-3 6-4)
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-3 6-1)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Sara ErraniErrani (6-2 6-2)
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Jessika PonchetPonchet (6-3 6-2)
- Cori GauffGauff – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (3-6 6-3 6-3)
- Donna VekicVekic – Peyton StearnsStearns (7-5 6-4)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-6 6-1 6-2)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 4-6 6-3)
- Yafan WangWang – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-4 3-6 6-1)
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (4-6 6-1 7-68)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (6-2 6-1)
- Elise MertensMertens – Madison KeysKeys (6-75 7-5 6-4)
Upcoming matches
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- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Cori GauffGauff (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-7) – H2H details and stats