MOSCOW. Veronika Kudermetova dispatches Jabeur in the 1st round of the Kremlin Cup

Veronika Kudermetova prevails over Ons Jabeur 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Moscow on Tuesday. Kudermetova will face Elina Svitolina in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kudermetova won the set after she broke the Tunisian in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. That break turned to be decisive for Kudermetova to conquer the set because she didn’t concede her serve in the rest of the set.

2^nd set.

Kudermetova conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, Kudermetova broke back in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.

Jabeur lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kudermetova scored 69 points vs. Jabeur’s 55 points.

Veronika served pretty well to win 84% of the points (27/32) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 46% points (12/26) on her second serve. The Russian won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, Jabeur was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Kudermetova and Jabeur is 2-0 for Veronika.

Next Match: Veronika Kudermetova vs. Elina Svitolina – stats

Kudermetova will square off with Svitolina in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Veronika Kudermetova and Elina Svitolina since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other 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