Anastasia Potapova defeats Zhaoxuan Yang 3-6 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in New York on Saturday. Potapova will play Francesca Di Lorenzo in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Potapova started the set strong after breaking Yang in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the Chinese managed to stage a good comeback to break Anastasia in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Potapova clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 5th (2-3) game, Anastasia broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
Zhaoxuan was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).
3rd set.
Potapova conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Yang in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Anastasia to win the set as the Chinese managed to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. The Russian maintained her cool to break the Chinese in the 9th (6-3) game.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Russian won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 83 points vs. Zhaoxuan’s 73 points.
Anastasia won this match even if she was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, Zhaoxuan had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 36% of her break points (4/11). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Potapova and Yang is 1-0 for Anastasia.
Next Match: Anastasia Potapova vs. Francesca Di Lorenzo – stats
Potapova will square off with Di Lorenzo in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Anastasia Potapova and Francesca Di Lorenzo since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other at pro level.
The last time that they squared off, Potapova won 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Wimbledon (juniors) back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Kaia KanepiKaia – Mayo HibiMayo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Laura SiegemundLaura – Claire LiuClaire (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Elizabeth MandlikElizabeth – Ying-Ying DuanYing-Ying (6-3 0-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Jil TeichmannJil – Belinda WoolcockBelinda (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicViktorija – Astra SharmaAstra (2-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesca Di LorenzoFrancesca – Whitney OsuigweWhitney (6-4 3-6 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Nadiya KichenokNadiya – Natalia VikhlyantsevaNatalia (6-4 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteMagda – Sophie ChangSophie (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFiona – Jana FettJana (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Zhaoxuan YangZhaoxuan (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaAnna – Maria SanchezMaria (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuLin – Pauline ParmentierPauline (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jil TeichmannJil – Laura SiegemundLaura (0-0) – See H2H details
- Fiona FerroFiona – Elizabeth MandlikElizabeth (0-0) – See H2H details
- Viktorija GolubicViktorija – Lin ZhuLin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Francesca Di LorenzoFrancesca (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kaia KanepiKaia – Nadiya KichenokNadiya (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteMagda – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
- Coco VandewegheCoco – Ajla TomljanovicAjla (1-0) – See H2H details
- Shuai ZhangShuai – Andrea PetkovicAndrea (0-2) – See H2H details
- Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (1-1) – See H2H details
- Kateryna KozlovaKateryna – Alize CornetAlize (0-1) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (0-0) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogPolona – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (1-1) – See H2H details
- Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (1-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaVeronika – Bernarda PeraBernarda (2-1) – See H2H details