TENNIS SCORES. Anastasia Potapova tops Han in the 1st round of the Korea Open

Anastasia Potapova beats Na-Lae Han 7-6⁴ 6-1 in the 1^st round in Seoul on Tuesday. Potapova will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Magda Linette in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Russian won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 11^th (5-6) game. The Russian broke back in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 12^th (6-6) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.

2^nd set.

Potapova got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Han in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Anastasia extended her lead after breaking Na-Lae in the 3^rd (3-0) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before managing to win the set.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Russian won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Anastasia scored 85 points vs. Na-Lae’s 71 points.

Potapova won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 42% (5/12). On the other side, Na-Lae had some problems in converting her break points since she converted only 29% of her break points (2/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Potapova and Han is 1-0 for Anastasia.

Next Match: Anastasia Potapova vs. Magda Linette – stats

Potapova will fight against Linette in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Anastasia Potapova and Magda Linette square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Potapova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Potapova won 1-6 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in Madrid back in May 2019.

Tennis Scores in Seoul

• Ana BogdanBogdan – Polona HercogHercog (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-4 3-6 7-6³) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Na-Lae HanHan (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Timea BabosBabos – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Priscilla HonHon – Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Denisa AllertovaAllertova (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnAhn – Timea BacsinszkyBacsinszky (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Danielle LaoLao (6-4 7-6²) – See score progression
• Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Jessica PegulaPegula (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Ji-Hee ChoiChoi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-1) – See H2H details
• Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Timea BabosBabos (0-0) – See H2H details
• Priscilla HonHon – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ana BogdanBogdan – Kristie AhnAhn (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details