Donna Vekic gets by Caroline Garcia 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in Osaka on Tuesday. Vekic will fight against Misaki Doi in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Vekic had a racing start in this set after breaking Garcia in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Donna to win the set as Caroline succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (2-2) game. The Croatian kept her focus to break Caroline in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
2nd set.
Vekic had a strong start of this set after breaking Garcia in the 1st game (1-0). Donna managed to boost her lead after breaking Garcia in the 5th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Donna scored 88 points vs. Caroline’s 74 points.
Donna served very well to win 78% of the points (32/41) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 46% points (18/39) on her second serve. The Croatian won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Caroline was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points because she converted only 10% of her break points (1/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Vekic and Garcia is 3-2 for Donna.
Next Match: Donna Vekic vs. Misaki Doi – stats
Vekic will come up against Doi in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Donna Vekic and Misaki Doi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Vekic won 6-4 3-6 6-4 in the 1st round in San Jose back in July 2019.
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