Kirsten Flipkens bests Liudmila Samsonova 7-62 6-4 in the 1st round in Hiroshima on Monday. Flipkens is going to play against Alison Van Uytvanck in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Samsonova had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Flipkens in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Kirsten managed to stage a great comeback to break the Russian in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 2.
2nd set.
Kirsten won the set after she broke Ludmilla in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game. Samsonova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Nonetheless, Kirsten stayed solid before winning the set 6-4.
Kirsten failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Kirsten scored 83 points vs. Samsonova’s 69 points.
Kirsten served pretty well to win 79% of the points (26/33) behind her first serve, and she won 67% points (22/33) on her second serve. Kirsten won this match even if she was struggling in converting her break points since she converted only 19% (3/16). On the other side, Ludmilla was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Flipkens and Samsonova is 1-0 for Kirsten.
Next Match: Kirsten Flipkens vs. Alison Van Uytvanck – stats
Flipkens will take on Van Uytvanck in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Kirsten Flipkens and Alison Van Uytvanck face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Flipkens and Van Uytvanck (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Van Uytvanck won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in St. Petersburg back in January 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