Nicole Gibbs beats Whitney Osuigwe 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Osaka on Sunday. Gibbs will play against Alison Riske in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Osuigwe commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Gibbs in the 1st game (1-0). However, Nicole refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Whitney 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
2nd set.
Gibbs had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Osuigwe in the 2nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for Nicole to win the set as Osuigwe succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Nicole kept her focus to break Whitney in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (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 1st 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