TENNIS SCORES. Gibbs ousts Osuigwe in the qualifications in Osaka

Nicole Gibbs beats Whitney Osuigwe 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Osaka on Sunday. Gibbs will play against Alison Riske in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Osuigwe commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Gibbs in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Nicole refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Whitney 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 8^th (4-4) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

2^nd set.

Gibbs had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Osuigwe in the 2^nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for Nicole to win the set as Osuigwe succeeded in breaking back in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (3-4) game. Nicole kept her focus to break Whitney in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Nicole scored 64 points vs. Whitney’s 55 points.

Nicole was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that she conquered (6/10). On the other side, Whitney was great in converting all the break points (4/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Gibbs and Osuigwe is 1-0 for Nicole.

Next Match: Nicole Gibbs vs. Alison Riske – stats

Gibbs will come up against Riske in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Nicole Gibbs and Alison Riske since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (3-6 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Kurumi NaraNara (6-7³ 7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Varvara FlinkFlink – Katarzyna KawaKawa (6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Xinyun HanHan – Yuki NaitoNaito (6-3 4-6 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Alize CornetCornet – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Nao HibinoHibino – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Xinyun HanHan – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (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
• Monica PuigPuig – Zarina DiyasDiyas (2-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Nicole GibbsGibbs (0-0) – 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