Nadia Podoroska shocks Tatjana Maria 2-6 6-1 6-1 in the quarter in Newport Beach on Friday. Podoroska will fight against Madison Brengle in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Podoroska started the set in the best possible way after breaking Maria in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Tatjana managed to stage a good comeback to break the Argentine 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Nadia was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Podoroska had a great start in this set after breaking Maria in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for the Argentine to win the set because the German managed to break back in the 4th (1-3) game. Podoroska maintained her cool to break Tatjana in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.
3rd set.
Nadia won the set after she broke Maria in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game. That break was the key and it was sufficient for Nadia to conquer the set since she didn’t drop her serve in the rest of the set.
The German had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Podoroska scored 72 points vs. Tatjana’s 53 points.
The Argentine was effective in converting 54% of the break points that she conquered (7/13). On the other side, Tatjana was effective in converting 80% of the break points that she conquered points (4/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Podoroska and Maria is 1-0 for Tatjana.
Next Match H2H: Nadia Podoroska vs. Madison Brengle – stats
Podoroska will take on Brengle in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Nadia Podoroska and Madison Brengle square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Podoroska (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Podoroska won 7-5 0-6 6-3 in the 1st round in Monterrey back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Newport Beach
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-6 7-67 6-2) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Coco VandewegheVandeweghe (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Tatjana MariaMaria (2-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (0-1) – See H2H details
- Stefanie VoegeleVoegele – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-0) – See H2H details
