TENNIS SCORES. Doi upsets Vekic in the 2nd round in Osaka

Misaki Doi surprises Donna Vekic 7-6⁵ 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Osaka on Thursday. Doi will square off with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Misaki won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 5^th (2-3) game, Misaki broke back in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.

2^nd set.

Vekic had a favorable start in this set after breaking Doi in the 2^nd game (2-0). Yet, Misaki succeeded in coming back to break Vekic 3 times in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 5^th (3-2) gamein the 9^th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

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

Statistics

At the end of the match, Doi scored 77 points vs. Vekic’s 66 points.

Doi was effective when converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6). On the other side, Donna was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 40% of her break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Doi and Vekic is 2-2.

Next Match: Misaki Doi vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats

Doi will fight against Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter.

This will be the 3^rd time that Misaki Doi and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Doi (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Doi won 6-7³ 6-4 3-1 ret. in the 1^st round in Wuhan back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Varvara FlinkFlink (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Kiki BertensBertens (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Donna VekicVekic (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Sloane StephensStephens (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-3 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Zarina DiyasDiyas (5-7 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Nicole GibbsGibbs (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-3) – See H2H details
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Angelique KerberKerber (2-8) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-0) – See H2H details