MELBOURNE RESULTS. Bertens conquers Diyas in the 3rd round

Kiki Bertens hustles Zarina Diyas 6-2 7-6³ in the 3^rd round in Melbourne on Saturday. Bertens will face off with Garbine Muguruza in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Bertens conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Diyas in the 1^st game (1-0). Bertens improved her lead after breaking the Kazakhstani in the 5^th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

2^nd set.

The Dutch clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 6^th (2-4) game, Kiki broke back in the 7^th (3-4) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.

Bertens missed the chance to break Zarina in the 1^st game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Dutch scored 78 points vs. Diyas’s 62 points.

Kiki served pretty well to win 76% of the points (32/42) behind her first serve, and she won 53% points (10/19) on her second serve. The Dutch won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 33% (3/9). On the other side, Zarina was exceptional in converting all the break points (1/1). However, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Bertens and Diyas is 1-1.

Highlights Kiki Bertens vs. Zarina Diyas Australian Open – Melbourne

Bertens’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Kiki Bertens vs. Garbine Muguruza – stats

Bertens will play Muguruza in the 4^th round.

This will be the 4^th time that Kiki Bertens and Garbine Muguruza fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Muguruza won 5-7 6-1 6-4 in the 4^th round in Indian Wells back in 2019.

Tennis Scores at the

• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (6-1 6-7⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Serena WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-7² 7-5) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Madison KeysKeys (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Petra KvitovaKvitova (2-1) – See H2H details
• Cori GauffGauff – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (0-2) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details