BEIJING. Kasatkina downs Alexandrova in the 3rd round

Daria Kasatkina topples Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4 6-3 in the 3^rd round in Beijing on Thursday. Kasatkina is going to play against Caroline Wozniacki in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Alexandrova had a racing start in this set after breaking Kasatkina in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Darya refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Ekaterina 4 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Ekaterina was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-4 to 6-4).

2^nd set.

Kasatkina had a racing start in this set after breaking Alexandrova in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Kasatkina to win the set since Alexandrova managed to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (2-5) game. Darya maintained her focus to break Alexandrova in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-3).

Kasatkina failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Darya scored 74 points vs. Alexandrova’s 62 points.

Kasatkina didn’t lose the concentration in converting 54% of the break points that she conquered (7/13). On the other side, Alexandrova was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 45% of her break points (5/11). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Kasatkina and Alexandrova is 1-0 for Darya.

Next Match: Daria Kasatkina vs. Caroline Wozniacki – stats

Kasatkina will come up against Wozniacki in the quarter.

This will be the 5^th time that Daria Kasatkina and Caroline Wozniacki fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Kasatkina (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Kasatkina won 7-6⁵ 6-3 in the 4^th round in Paris back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Polona HercogHercog (7-6⁶ 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-7⁸ 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-4) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (3-1) – See H2H details