Arina Rodionova shocks Anastasia Potapova 6-2 1-6 6-2 in the qualifications in Adelaide on Sunday. Rodionova will face off with Sloane Stephens in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Rodionova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Potapova in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Australian to win the set because the Russian succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (2-4) game. Rodionova kept her focus to break Potapova in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
2nd set.
Potapova overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Rodionova in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more to do for the Russian to win the set as Rodionova succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Potapova maintained her focus to break the Australian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).
Rodionova was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).
3rd set.
Rodionova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Potapova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for Arina to win the set because the Russian succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3) game. The Australian maintained her cool to break the Russian in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Arina scored 96 points vs. Potapova’s 84 points.
The Australian was effective in converting 57% of the break points that she conquered (8/14). On the other side, Anastasia was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 43% – 6/14). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Rodionova and Potapova is 2-0 for Arina.
Next Match H2H: Arina Rodionova vs. Sloane Stephens – stats
Rodionova will fight against Stephens in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Arina Rodionova and Sloane Stephens since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Adelaide
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Timea BabosBabos (6-4 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-63 6-0) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Coco VandewegheVandeweghe (7-65 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Arina RodionovaRodionova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-2 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Arina RodionovaRodionova – Sloane StephensStephens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Julia GoergesGoerges – Priscilla HonHon (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kiki BertensBertens – Maria SakkariSakkari (3-3) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Timea BabosBabos (0-0) – See H2H details
- Qiang WangWang – Angelique KerberKerber (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-2) – See H2H details
- Bernarda PeraPera – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (1-1) – See H2H details
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-3) – See H2H details
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Simona HalepHalep (0-3) – See H2H details