TENNIS SCORES. Kudermetova victorious over Nara in the qualifications of the Wuhan Open

Veronika Kudermetova defeats Kurumi Nara 6-1 2-6 7-5 in the qualifications in Wuhan on Saturday. Kudermetova will fight against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kudermetova had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Nara in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Anyhow, there was more work to do for Kudermetova to win the set because Kurumi found the way to break back in the 6^th (1-5) game. Veronika kept her cool to break Kurumi in the 7^th (6-1) game.

Veronika failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 15.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Russian won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

The Japanese in this set was much more effective than Kudermetova and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking the Russian in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

3^rd set.

Nara had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Kudermetova in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Veronika succeeded in coming back to break Kurumi in the 10^th (5-5) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Nara couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Veronika scored 98 points vs. Nara’s 97 points.

Veronika won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 35% (6/17). On the other side, Nara was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 22% of her break points (4/18). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Kudermetova and Nara is 1-0 for Veronika.

Next Match: Veronika Kudermetova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova – stats

Kudermetova will come up against Alexandrova in the 1^st round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Veronika Kudermetova and Ekaterina Alexandrova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kudermetova won 6-0 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Nurnberg back in May 2019.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kurumi NaraNara (6-1 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Lauren DavisDavis – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Xinyun HanHan (6-1 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuZhu – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Ellen PerezPerez (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – See H2H details
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• Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (4-1) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lin ZhuZhu (0-1) – See H2H details
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Donna VekicVekic (0-2) – See H2H details
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Alison RiskeRiske (0-0) – See H2H details
• Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (2-3) – See H2H details
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• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-1) – See H2H details
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• Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Christina MchaleMchale (0-1) – See H2H details
• Samantha StosurStosur – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details
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• Bernarda PeraPera – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – See H2H details
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – See H2H details