TENNIS SCORES. Kerber dispatches Gibbs in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Angelique Kerber topples Nicole Gibbs 6-2 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Osaka on Wednesday. Kerber will have to play Madison Keys in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kerber had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Gibbs in the 2^nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for Angelique to win the set because Gibbs managed to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Angelique maintained her focus to break the American in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

2^nd set.

Angelique 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 5^th (1-4) game. The German broke back 3 times in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

The American was completely wiped out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-4 to 6-4).

Notwithstanding also Nicole won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1

Statistics

At the end of the match, the German scored 70 points vs. the American’s 48 points.

Kerber was effective when converting 55% of the break points that she conquered (6/11). On the other side, the American had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 38% of her break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Kerber and Gibbs is 1-0 for Angelique.

Next Match: Angelique Kerber vs. Madison Keys – stats

Kerber will square off with Keys in the quarter.

This will be the 11^th time that Angelique Kerber and Madison Keys fight against each other. The head to head is 8-2 for Kerber (see full H2H stats), 6-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kerber won 6-0 4-1 ret. in the 2^nd round in Wuhan back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Madison KeysKeys – Zarina DiyasDiyas (5-7 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-3 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Nicole GibbsGibbs (6-2 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Varvara FlinkFlink – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – See H2H details
• Sloane StephensStephens – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (2-2) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Misaki DoiDoi (2-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Kiki BertensBertens (2-5) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Angelique KerberKerber (2-8) – See H2H details