Danka Kovinic thumps Alexandra Cadantu 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in Seoul on Saturday after playing a remarkable match to square off with Danielle Lao in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kovinic didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Cadantu in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Danka to win the set since Alexandra found the way to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. Kovinic kept her focus to break Alexandra in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when the won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
2nd set.
Kovinic in this set didn’t concede much to Alexandra and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Cadantu in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the scored 64 points vs. Alexandra’s 40 points.
Kovinic served pretty well to win 76% of the points (29/38) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 35% points (7/20) on her second serve. Kovinic was well focused in converting 71% of the break points that she conquered (5/7). On the other side, the Romanian had some problems in converting her break points as she converted only 33% of her break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Kovinic and Cadantu is 1-0 for Danka.
Next Match: Danka Kovinic vs. Danielle Lao – stats
Kovinic will take on Lao in the qualifications.
This will be the 2nd time that Danka Kovinic and Danielle Lao square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lao (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Lao won 6-2 7-65 in the qualifications in London back in June 2019.
Tennis Scores in Seoul
- Sohyun ParkPark – Xiaodi YouYou (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Yeong Won JeongWon Jeong (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Ulrikke EikeriEikeri – Su Jeong JangJeong Jang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Jana FettFett (4-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Samantha MurrayMurray (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Timea BabosBabos – Jiho ShinShin (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Destanee AiavaAiava – Urszula RadwanskaRadwanska (1-6 7-69 6-1) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Alexandra CadantuCadantu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Dabin KimKim (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Priscilla HonHon – Yu Jin AhnJin Ahn (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Naiktha BainsBains (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Danielle LaoLao – Susanne CelikCelik (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Timea BabosBabos – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – See H2H details
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Danielle LaoLao (0-1) – See H2H details
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Sohyun ParkPark (0-0) – See H2H details
- Priscilla HonHon – Destanee AiavaAiava (0-0) – See H2H details
- Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ana BogdanBogdan – Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena (0-2) – See H2H details
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-1) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-2) – See H2H details
- Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Tatjana MariaMaria (1-0) – See H2H details
- Denisa AllertovaAllertova – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (1-1) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Na-Lae HanHan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Magda LinetteLinette (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kristie AhnAhn – Timea BacsinszkyBacsinszky (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ji-Hee ChoiChoi – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details