TENNIS SCORES OSAKA. Fantastic Diyas powers past Okamura in the qualifications of the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Zarina Diyas makes light work of Kyoka Okamura 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in Osaka on Sunday after playing a fantastic match to deal with Monica Puig in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Okamura commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Diyas in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Diyas succeeded in coming back to break the Japanese 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

Okamura was unable to find the solution in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Diyas in this set played a much better tennis than Okamura and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking Okamura in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Diyas won 5 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Zarina scored 64 points vs. Kyoka’s 45 points.

Zarina was well focused in converting 71% of the break points that she conquered (5/7). On the other side, the Japanese was not so effective in converting her break points because she converted only 13% of her break points (1/8). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Diyas and Okamura is 1-0 for Zarina.

Next Match: Zarina Diyas vs. Monica Puig – stats

Diyas will take on Puig in the 1^st round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Zarina Diyas and Monica Puig play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Puig (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Puig won 6-4 2-6 6-2 in the 1^st round in Madrid back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

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