BRISBANE RESULTS. Sofia Kenin conquers Sevastova in the 1st round of the Brisbane International

Sofia Kenin beats Anastasija Sevastova 7-6¹ 6-4 in the 1^st round in Brisbane on Monday. Kenin will clash against Naomi Osaka in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sofia won the set after she broke the Latvian in the 7^th (4-3) game. The Latvian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. Yet, Sofia didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 1.

2^nd set.

Kenin conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Sevastova in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Kenin to win the set as the Latvian found the way to break back in the 5^th (2-3) game. The American maintained her cool to break Sevastova in the 10^th (6-4) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Sofia scored 74 points vs. the Latvian’s 67 points.

The American was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she procured (3/6). On the other side, Sevastova had a tough time converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Kenin and Sevastova is 2-0 for Sofia.

Next Match H2H: Sofia Kenin vs. Naomi Osaka – stats

Kenin will play Osaka in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Sofia Kenin and Naomi Osaka play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kenin and Osaka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Kenin won 6-4 1-6 2-0 ret. in the quarter in Cincinnati back in 2019.

Tennis Scores in Brisbane

• Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Donna VekicVekic (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Samantha StosurStosur – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Priscilla HonHon (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (7-6¹ 6-4) – See score progression
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Johanna KontaKonta (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Maria SharapovaSharapova – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-7) – See H2H details
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – See H2H details
• Samantha StosurStosur – Madison KeysKeys (3-0) – See H2H details
• Kiki BertensBertens – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (2-1) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-1) – See H2H details
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Alison RiskeRiske (2-0) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-4) – See H2H details