TENNIS SCORES. Tomova shocks Cornet in the 1st round in Osaka

Viktoriya Tomova surprises Alize Cornet 4-6 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Osaka on Monday. Tomova will play against Naomi Osaka in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Tomova started the set strong after breaking Cornet in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Cornet refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Tomova 4 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (5-1) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Cornet failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 0.

Viktoriya lost the 6^th game (5-1) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

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

2^nd set.

The Bulgarian won the set after she broke Alize 3 times in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. Cornet tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (3-3) game. Nonetheless, Viktoriya kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-3.

3^rd set.

Cornet got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Tomova in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Tomova found the way to come back to break the French Player 4 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Bulgarian scored 104 points vs. the French Player’s 89 points.

Tomova won this match even if she had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 43% (10/23). On the other side, Alize was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 47% of her break points (7/15). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Tomova and Cornet is 1-0 for Viktoriya.

Next Match: Viktoriya Tomova vs. Naomi Osaka – stats

Tomova will fight against Osaka in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Viktoriya Tomova and Naomi Osaka since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Alize CornetCornet (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Xinyun HanHan (7-6⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Monica PuigPuig (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

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