MOSCOW. Immense Flipkens exterminates Vikhlyantseva in the 1st round

Kirsten Flipkens grounds Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Moscow on Tuesday after playing a solid match to clash against Dayana Yastremska in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Vikhlyantseva had a great start in this set after breaking Flipkens in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, Kirsten managed to stage a great comeback to break Vikhlyantseva 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.

Vikhlyantseva was completely wiped out in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Flipkens in this set was too strong for Natalia and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Vikhlyantseva in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kirsten scored 57 points vs. Natalia’s 39 points.

The Belgian served exceptionally well to win 81% of the points (21/26) behind her first serve, and she won 64% points (9/14) on her second serve. Flipkens won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Vikhlyantseva was great in converting all the break points (1/1). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Flipkens and Vikhlyantseva is 1-1.

Next Match: Kirsten Flipkens vs. Dayana Yastremska – stats

Flipkens will come up against Yastremska in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Kirsten Flipkens and Dayana Yastremska since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

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