Tamara Korpatsch upsets Arantxa Rus 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the qualifications in Linz on Sunday. Korpatsch will engage against Cori Gauff in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Korpatsch started the set in the best possible way after breaking Rus in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for the German to win the set as Arantxa found the way to break back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (3-5) game. Korpatsch kept her focus to break the Dutch in the 5th (3-2), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Korpatsch failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
2nd set.
Rus won the set after she broke Tamara in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game. The German tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) game. Yet, Rus stayed solid before winning the set 6-4.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Dutch won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
3rd set.
The German clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Korpatsch broke back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set 6-3.
A crucial moment of the match was when Tamara won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Korpatsch scored 100 points vs. the Dutch’s 89 points.
Korpatsch won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 41% (7/17). On the other side, Rus was pretty good in converting 56% of the break points that she procured points (5/9). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Korpatsch and Rus is 1-0 for Tamara.
Next Match: Tamara Korpatsch vs. Cori Gauff – stats
Korpatsch will take on Gauff in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Tamara Korpatsch and Cori Gauff since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Linz
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Pauline ParmentierParmentier – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Danka KovinicKovinic (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Misaki DoiDoi – Melanie KlaffnerKlaffner (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Emily MeyerMeyer (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Kaja JuvanJuvan (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure – Denisa AllertovaAllertova (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-710 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Mira AntonitschAntonitsch (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Misaki DoiDoi – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – See H2H details
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Pauline ParmentierParmentier (2-0) – See H2H details
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Barbara HaasHaas (0-0) – See H2H details
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Julia GrabherGrabher (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Margarita GasparyanGasparyan – Julia GoergesGoerges (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-4) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogHercog – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Alize CornetCornet (3-5) – See H2H details
