Ekaterina Alexandrova victorious over Daria Kasatkina 6-4 3-6 6-4 in the 1st round in St. Petersburg on Tuesday. Alexandrova will clash against Donna Vekic in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Alexandrova got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Kasatkina in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, that was not enough for Alexandrova to win the set as Kasatkina succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Ekaterina kept her focus to break Kasatkina in the 5th (3-2) game before conquering the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Kasatkina took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Alexandrova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That break resulted decisive for Darya to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.
3rd set.
Kasatkina got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Alexandrova in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Alexandrova succeeded in coming back to break Darya 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Alexandrova scored 93 points vs. Kasatkina’s 85 points.
Alexandrova fired 10 aces and she committed 3 double faults. Alexandrova was pretty good in converting 83% of the break points that she procured (5/6). On the other side, Kasatkina was struggling when converting her break points (only 40% – 4/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Alexandrova and Kasatkina is 1-1.
Next Match H2H: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Donna Vekic – stats
Alexandrova will come up against Vekic in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Donna Vekic face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Vekic won 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in Budapest back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Alize CornetCornet – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Kristie AhnAhn (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-64 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Caroline GarciaGarcia (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Oceane DodinDodin – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (3-6 6-4 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (2-1) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-2) – See H2H details
- Fiona FerroFerro – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details