TIANJIN. Caroline Garcia defeats Potapova in the 1st round of the Tianjin Open

TIANJIN OPEN - TIANJIN. Garcia aces Potapova to square off with Yafan Wang in the 2nd round

Prediction and head to head Caroline Garcia vs. Anastasia Potapova

Caroline Garcia wins against Anastasia Potapova 2-6 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Tianjin on Monday. Garcia will engage against Yafan Wang in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Potapova had a favorable start in this set after breaking Garcia in the 1st game (1-0). Anastasia managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Garcia in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).

2nd set.

Garcia in this set didn’t concede much to Potapova and therefore she won 6-2. The Russian broke Garcia in the 3rd (2-1) game. However, Garcia broke her opponent in the 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (2-4) and in the 8th (2-6) game, but that didn’t prevent her to conquer the set (6-2).

Potapova had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

3rd set.

Garcia conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Potapova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, that was not enough for Caroline to win the set because Potapova managed to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. Caroline maintained her focus to break Anastasia in the 8th (6-2) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when the French Player won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Garcia scored 82 points vs. Anastasia’s 73 points.

Caroline won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 38% (6/16). On the other side, Potapova was pretty good in converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Garcia and Potapova is 1-0 for Caroline.

Highlights Caroline Garcia vs. Anastasia Potapova Tianjin Open – Tianjin

Next Match: Caroline Garcia vs. Yafan Wang – stats

Garcia will face Wang in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Caroline Garcia and Yafan Wang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Garcia (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Garcia won 7-610 6-74 6-3 in the 1st round in Beijing back in 2018.

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