BRISBANE RESULTS. Tenacious Jennifer Brady survives Sharapova in the 1st round of the Brisbane International

Jennifer Brady outlasts Maria Sharapova 3-6 6-1 7-6³ in the 1^st round in Brisbane on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Brady will play against Ashleigh Barty in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sharapova overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Brady in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That break turned to be decisive for the Russian to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.

2^nd set.

Jennifer was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking Maria 2 times and win the set 6-1.

Sharapova was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, Jennifer won the tiebreak at 3.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Jennifer scored 96 points vs. the Russian’s 81 points.

The American won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 33% (2/6). On the other side, Sharapova was pretty good in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (1/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Brady and Sharapova is 1-1.

Highlights Jennifer Brady vs. Maria Sharapova Brisbane International – Brisbane

Next Match H2H: Jennifer Brady vs. Ashleigh Barty – stats

Brady will come up against Barty in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Jennifer Brady and Ashleigh Barty square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Barty (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Barty won 6-3 6-1 in the 2^nd round in Birmingham back in 2019.

Tennis Scores in Brisbane

• Jennifer BradyBrady – Maria SharapovaSharapova (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-6 6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Donna VekicVekic (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Johanna KontaKonta (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Samantha StosurStosur – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (7-6¹ 6-4) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Priscilla HonHon (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Jennifer BradyBrady (2-0) – See H2H details
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kiki BertensBertens – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (2-1) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-1) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-4) – See H2H details
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Madison KeysKeys (1-0) – See H2H details