TASHKENT. Niculescu beats Abduraimova in the 1st round

Monica Niculescu wins against Nigina Abduraimova 6-1 7-5 in the 1^st round in Tashkent on Tuesday. Niculescu will have to play Alison Van Uytvanck in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Niculescu was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Abduraimova in the 1^st game (1-0). Monica reinforced her lead after breaking the Uzbek in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

Nigina couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

The Romanian 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 9^th (5-4) game. Niculescu broke back 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 8^th (5-3) and in the 12^th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

Monica failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 15.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Romanian scored 69 points vs. Abduraimova’s 47 points.

The Romanian was sharp when converting 67% of the break points that she procured (6/9). On the other side, the Uzbek was remarkable in converting all the break points (2/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Niculescu and Abduraimova is 1-0 for Monica.

Next Match: Monica Niculescu vs. Alison Van Uytvanck – stats

Niculescu will compete against Van Uytvanck in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Monica Niculescu and Alison Van Uytvanck fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Niculescu and Van Uytvanck (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Niculescu won 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in Beijing back in 2014.

Tennis Scores in Tashkent

• Monica NiculescuNiculescu – Nigina AbduraimovaAbduraimova (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Timea BabosBabos – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Akgul AmanmuradovaAmanmuradova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Olga GovortsovaGovortsova (7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Katarzyna KawaKawa – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Denisa AllertovaAllertova (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Danka KovinicKovinic – Sabina SharipovaSharipova (6-0 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Harriet DartDart (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-3 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Greetje MinnenMinnen – Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katarzyna KawaKawa – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Monica NiculescuNiculescu (1-1) – See H2H details
• Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Timea BabosBabos (1-1) – See H2H details
• Tatjana MariaMaria – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – See H2H details
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (0-0) – See H2H details
• Danka KovinicKovinic – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (1-0) – See H2H details