MOSCOW. Valentini Grammatikopoulou victorious over Kostova in the qualifications of the Kremlin Cup

Valentini Grammatikopoulou prevails over Elitsa Kostova 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in Moscow on Saturday. Grammatikopoulou will face Giulia Gatto-Monticone in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kostova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Grammatikopoulou in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, Valentini refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Elitsa 3 times in the 5^th (2-3), in the 7^th (4-3) gamein the 9^th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Kostova was not able to offer any resistance in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Kostova overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Grammatikopoulou in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Valentini refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Kostova in the 2^nd (1-1) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Grammatikopoulou scored 73 points vs. Elitsa’s 60 points.

Valentini won this match even if she was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, the Bulgarian was pretty effective in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Grammatikopoulou and Kostova is 1-0 for Valentini.

Next Match: Valentini Grammatikopoulou vs. Giulia Gatto-Monticone – stats

Grammatikopoulou will play Gatto-Monticone in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Valentini Grammatikopoulou and Giulia Gatto-Monticone since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Moscow

• Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kaia KanepiKanepi – Vlada KovalKoval (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Sofya LansereLansere (3-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Olga GovortsovaGovortsova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Oksana SelekhmetevaSelekhmeteva (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Jana CepelovaCepelova – Ana BogdanBogdan (1-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Nadiya KichenokKichenok (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Varvara FlinkFlink – Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Valentini GrammatikopoulouGrammatikopoulou – Elitsa KostovaKostova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Jana FettFett – Darija JurakJurak (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Isabella ShinikovaShinikova – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Valentyna IvakhnenkoIvakhnenko (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski – Jaqueline CristianCristian (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Basak EraydinEraydin (6-0 2-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Kaia KanepiKanepi – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jana FettFett – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Isabella ShinikovaShinikova – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (0-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Jana CepelovaCepelova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone – Valentini GrammatikopoulouGrammatikopoulou (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – See H2H details
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
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• Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-1) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-1) – See H2H details