TENNIS SCORES. Varvara Flink overcomes Kawa in the qualifications of the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Varvara Flink wins against Katarzyna Kawa 6-1 7-6³ in the qualifications in Osaka on Sunday. Flink will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Nao Hibino in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Flink conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Kawa in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The Russian managed to boost her lead after breaking the Pole in the 4^th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Flink won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Flink was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Kawa in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Flink to win the set since the Pole found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 6^th (4-2) game. The Russian maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 3.

Nonetheless also Kawa won 4 consecutive games from 0-2 to 4-2

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Russian scored 73 points vs. Katarzyna’s 60 points.

Varvara didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6). On the other side, Katarzyna was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 17% of her break points (2/12). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Flink and Kawa is 1-0 for Varvara.

Next Match: Varvara Flink vs. Nao Hibino – stats

Flink will play Hibino in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Varvara Flink and Nao Hibino since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

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