Maria Sakkari outlasts Vitalia Diatchenko 3-6 6-4 7-63 in the 1st round in St. Petersburg on Monday after winning a huge battle. Sakkari will clash against Jelena Ostapenko or Alize Cornet in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Diatchenko conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Vitalia broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
Maria was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).
2nd set.
Diatchenko had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Sakkari in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, Maria managed to stage a good comeback to break Vitalia 3 times in the 4th (1-3), in the 6th (3-3) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
A defining moment of this contest was when Sakkari won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-3 to 4-3.
3rd set.
Diatchenko took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Sakkari in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Sakkari found the way to come back to break the Russian 4 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (2-2), in the 8th (3-5) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 3.
Certainly, a key moment was when the Greek won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 2-5 to 6-5.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Maria scored 108 points vs. Diatchenko’s 107 points.
The Greek was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (8/16). On the other side, Diatchenko was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 47% – 8/17). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Diatchenko is 2-0 for Maria.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Vitalia Diatchenko St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy – St. Petersburg
Next Match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Jelena Ostapenko or Alize Cornet – stats
Sakkari will face either Jelena Ostapenko or Alize Cornet in the 2nd round. The head to head is 1-1 vs. Jelena Ostapenko and 2-0 vs. Alize Cornet.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (3-6 6-4 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – See H2H details
- Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Kristie AhnAhn (1-0) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-0) – See H2H details
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – See H2H details
