Daria Kasatkina bests Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3 3-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Auckland on Monday. Kasatkina will seek to keep on going in this event against Amanda Anisimova in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Kasatkina conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Suarez Navarro had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Kasatkina in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, that was not enough for Carla to win the set because the Russian found the way to break back in the 7th (3-4) game. The Spaniard maintained her cool to break Kasatkina in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Kasatkina had a racing start in this set after breaking Suarez Navarro in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Kasatkina to win the set since Carla succeeded in breaking back in the 7th (2-5) game. Kasatkina kept her focus to break Carla in the 8th (6-2) game.
One of the most important stint of the contest was when Kasatkina won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Kasatkina scored 81 points vs. Suarez Navarro’s 69 points.
Darya didn’t lose the concentration in converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9). On the other side, the Spaniard was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (3/6). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Kasatkina and Suarez Navarro is 2-0 for Darya.
Next Match H2H: Daria Kasatkina vs. Amanda Anisimova – stats
Kasatkina will compete against Anisimova in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Daria Kasatkina and Amanda Anisimova since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Christina MchaleMchale – Ann LiLi (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Paige Mary HouriganMary Hourigan (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Usue Maitane ArconadaMaitane Arconada (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Valentina IvanovIvanov (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (7-67 7-65) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Eugenie BouchardBouchard – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Taylor TownsendTownsend (5-7 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Lauren DavisDavis – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (7-6(7) 6-2) – See score progression
- Julia GoergesGoerges – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-1 7-6(4)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-1) – See H2H details
- Lauren DavisDavis – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (1-3) – See H2H details
- Greetje MinnenMinnen – Julia GoergesGoerges (0-0) – See H2H details
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Christina MchaleMchale (3-0) – See H2H details
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Eugenie BouchardBouchard – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
