Kirsten Flipkens shocks Dayana Yastremska 6-3 3-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in Moscow on Wednesday. Flipkens is going to play against Belinda Bencic in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Flipkens was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Yastremska in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Flipkens to win the set as Dayana found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (3-2) game. Flipkens maintained her focus to break Yastremska in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
Dayana couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).
2nd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Yastremska conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Kirsten won the set after she broke Yastremska in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. The Ukrainian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Notwithstanding, Flipkens maintained the focus before winning the set 6-3.
Statistics
Flipkens won this contest even if she conquered less points than Yastremska (88 vs. 92).
The Belgian won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 33% (5/15). On the other side, the Ukrainian was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 36% of her break points (4/11). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Flipkens and Yastremska is 1-0 for Kirsten.
Next Match: Kirsten Flipkens vs. Belinda Bencic – stats
Flipkens will compete against Bencic in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Kirsten Flipkens and Belinda Bencic face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they played each other, Bencic won 6-1 6-3 in the 2nd round in Luxembourg back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Moscow
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Kiki BertensBertens – Kaia KanepiKanepi (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Polona HercogHercog (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (1-1) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Belinda BencicBencic (1-2) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – See H2H details