TENNIS SCORES OSAKA. Amazing Nara thumps Kobori in the qualifications of the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Kurumi Nara obliterates Momoko Kobori 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in Osaka on Saturday after playing a remarkable match to face off with Alize Cornet in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Nara won the set after she broke Momoko in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Kobori tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Nonetheless, Nara kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Kurumi in this set played at a much higher level than Kobori and for that reason she won 6-2. Kobori broke Kurumi 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. However, Nara broke her opponent in the 4^th (2-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to win the set (6-2).

Kobori was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kurumi scored 55 points vs. Kobori’s 36 points.

Kurumi was effective in converting 83% of the break points that she procured (5/6). On the other side, Momoko didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Nara and Kobori is 1-0 for Kurumi.

Next Match: Kurumi Nara vs. Alize Cornet – stats

Nara will square off with Cornet in the qualifications.

This will be the 2^nd time that Kurumi Nara and Alize Cornet play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nara (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they squared off, Nara won 2-6 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in New York back in 2015.

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