TENNIS SCORES HIROSHIMA. Astonishing Flink motors past Kucova in the 1st round of the Japan Women’s Open

Varvara Flink crushes Kristina Kucova 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Hiroshima on Tuesday after playing a remarkable match to deal with Sara Sorribes Tormo in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Flink was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Kucova in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, that was not enough for the Russian to win the set since the Slovakian found the way to break back in the 5^th (2-3) and in the 7^th (3-4) game. Flink kept her focus to break the Slovakian in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before managing to win the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Varvara in this set played a much better tennis than Kristina and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Kucova in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Varvara scored 65 points vs. Kucova’s 47 points.

The Russian served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (22/29) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 43% points (9/21) on her second serve. Flink won this match even if she had some problems in converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Kristina was pretty effective in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this contest, the head to head between Flink and Kucova is 1-0 for Varvara.

Next Match: Varvara Flink vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo – stats

Flink will face Sorribes Tormo in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Varvara Flink and Sara Sorribes Tormo since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.

The last time that they locked horns, Sorribes Tormo won 6-3 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Bol back in June 2019.

Tennis Scores in Hiroshima

• Nao HibinoHibino – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-7² 7-6⁵ 7-5) – See score progression
• Zoe HivesHives – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Kurumi NaraNara – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Risa OzakiOzaki (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Junri NamigataNamigata (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Varvara FlinkFlink – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Ayano ShimizuShimizu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Priscilla HonHon – Katarzyna KawaKawa (6-0 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (2-2) – See H2H details
• Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Kurumi NaraNara (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Zoe HivesHives (0-0) – See H2H details
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Nao HibinoHibino (2-0) – See H2H details
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details