Donna Vekic destroys Kristie Ahn 6-4 6-1 in the 1st round in St. Petersburg on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to fight against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Donna won the set after she broke Kristie in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Nevertheless, the Croatian kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
Vekic had a great start in this set after breaking Ahn in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Donna reinforced her lead after breaking the American in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Croatian won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Vekic scored 56 points vs. Kristie’s 36 points.
Vekic was well focused in converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9). On the other side, Kristie was exceptional in converting all the break points (1/1). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Vekic and Ahn is 2-0 for Donna.
Highlights Donna Vekic vs. Kristie Ahn St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy – St. Petersburg
Next Match H2H: Donna Vekic vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova or Daria Kasatkina – stats
Vekic will fight against either Ekaterina Alexandrova or Daria Kasatkina in the 2nd round. The head to head is 1-0 vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova and 1-0 vs. Daria Kasatkina.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Oceane DodinDodin – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Kristie AhnAhn (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-64 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (3-6 6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Caroline GarciaGarcia (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – See H2H details
- Fiona FerroFerro – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Johanna KontaKonta – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details