TENNIS SCORES. Keys ousts Kasatkina in the 1st round in Osaka

Madison Keys downs Darya Kasatkina 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Osaka on Tuesday. Keys will fight against Zarina Diyas in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kasatkina had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Keys in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Madison refused to bow to come back to break Kasatkina 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Kasatkina couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Madison won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 4^th (1-3) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. The American broke back 3 times in the 5^th (2-3), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Keys scored 59 points vs. the Russian’s 45 points.

The American was effective when converting 60% of the break points that she conquered (6/10). On the other side, the Russian didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (4/6). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Keys and Kasatkina is 6-0 for Madison.

Next Match: Madison Keys vs. Zarina Diyas – stats

Keys will take on Diyas in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Madison Keys and Zarina Diyas fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Keys (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Keys won 7-6⁵ 6-1 in the 1^st round in Melbourne back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Varvara FlinkFlink – Nao HibinoHibino (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Donna VekicVekic – Caroline GarciaGarcia (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (3-6 7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Monica PuigPuig (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Alize CornetCornet (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Xinyun HanHan (7-6⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Katarzyna KawaKawa (0-0) – See H2H details
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sloane StephensStephens – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (2-2) – See H2H details
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Zarina DiyasDiyas (1-0) – See H2H details
• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Angelique KerberKerber (0-0) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Misaki DoiDoi (2-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Kiki BertensBertens (2-5) – See H2H details