Dayana Yastremska makes light work of Daria Kasatkina 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in Moscow on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to play Kirsten Flipkens in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Yastremska came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Kasatkina in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The Ukrainian managed to boost her lead after breaking Kasatkina in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when the Ukrainian won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
2nd set.
Yastremska conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Kasatkina in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more to do for Yastremska to win the set as Kasatkina succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game. Yastremska kept her focus to break Kasatkina in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before managing to win the set (6-4).
Darya was powerless in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Dayana scored 69 points vs. Darya’s 51 points.
Dayana didn’t lose the focus when converting 75% of the break points that she conquered (6/8). On the other side, the Russian was struggling in converting her break points as she converted only 30% of her break points (3/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Yastremska and Kasatkina is 1-0 for Dayana.
Highlights Dayana Yastremska vs. Daria Kasatkina Kremlin Cup – Moscow
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Next Match: Dayana Yastremska vs. Kirsten Flipkens – stats
Yastremska will come up against Flipkens in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Dayana Yastremska and Kirsten Flipkens since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Moscow
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Timea BabosBabos (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jana CepelovaCepelova (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Natalia VikhlyantsevaVikhlyantseva (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Maria SakkariSakkari (5-7 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-0 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogHercog – Belinda BencicBencic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-0) – See H2H details
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Kiki BertensBertens (1-0) – See H2H details