TASHKENT. Zavatska dispatches Martincova in the 2nd round of the Tashkent Open

Katarina Zavatska overcomes Tereza Martincova 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Tashkent on Wednesday. Zavatska will play Anna Kalinskaya in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Zavatska had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Martincova in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more to do for the Ukrainian to win the set since Tereza found the way to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 6^th (3-3) game. Zavatska kept her focus to break Tereza in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

The Czech lost the 1^st game (1-0) when she was 40-0 up.

2^nd set.

Zavatska won the set after she broke Tereza in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. The Czech tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (5-3) game. Yet, Katarina kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-4.

Katarina failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.

A crucial moment of the match was when Zavatska won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Zavatska scored 82 points vs. the Czech’s 70 points.

Katarina won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Martincova wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 33% of her break points (3/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Zavatska and Martincova is 1-0 for Katarina.

Next Match: Katarina Zavatska vs. Anna Kalinskaya – stats

Zavatska will square off with Kalinskaya in the quarter.

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

The last time that they locked horns, Kalinskaya won 6-2 3-6 6-3 in the qualifications in Stuttgart back in April 2019.

Tennis Scores in Tashkent

• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Tatjana MariaMaria (3-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (5-7 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Monica NiculescuNiculescu (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Katarzyna KawaKawa (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Danka KovinicKovinic – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (7-5 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Katarzyna KawaKawa – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Timea BabosBabos (1-1) – See H2H details
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (1-0) – See H2H details