Zarina Diyas blitzes Miharu Imanishi 6-1 6-4 in the qualifications in Osaka on Saturday after playing a remarkable match to face off with Kyoka Okamura in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Diyas started the set in the best possible way after breaking Imanishi in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Diyas extended her lead after breaking Imanishi in the 6th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
Diyas won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .
2nd set.
Imanishi started the set in the best possible way after breaking Diyas in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, Diyas managed to stage a great comeback to break the Japanese 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (2-3) and in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).
A crucial moment of the match was when Zarina won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 1-3 to 5-3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Diyas scored 63 points vs. Miharu’s 34 points.
The Kazakhstani served very well to win 85% of the points (22/26) behind her first serve, and she won 57% points (12/21) on her second serve. The Kazakhstani was well focused in converting 56% of the break points that she conquered (5/9). On the other side, the Japanese was struggling in converting her break points since she converted only 33% of her break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Diyas and Imanishi is 1-0 for Zarina.
Next Match: Zarina Diyas vs. Kyoka Okamura – stats
Diyas will come up against Okamura in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Zarina Diyas and Kyoka Okamura since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Osaka
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Mayo HibiHibi (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuki NaitoNaito – Astra SharmaSharma (1-6 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Miharu ImanishiImanishi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Kyoka OkamuraOkamura – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Kurumi NaraNara – Momoko KoboriKobori (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (3-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Xinyun HanHan – Risa OzakiOzaki (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Akiko OmaeOmae (2-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Varvara FlinkFlink – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-710 6-3) – See score progression
- Nicole GibbsGibbs – Ayano ShimizuShimizu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Alize CornetCornet – Kurumi NaraNara (0-1) – See H2H details
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yuki NaitoNaito – Xinyun HanHan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe – Nicole GibbsGibbs (0-0) – See H2H details
- Katarzyna KawaKawa – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-1) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-2) – See H2H details
- Madison KeysKeys – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-0) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-2) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Misaki DoiDoi (1-1) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – See H2H details