DUBAI RESULTS. Sorana Cirstea dispatches Gasparyan in the qualifications

Sorana Cirstea conquers Margarita Gasparyan 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Dubai on Saturday. Cirstea will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Julia Goerges in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Romanian won the set after she broke the Russian 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 10^th (6-4) game. The Russian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (4-3) game. Anyhow, the Romanian kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-4.

2^nd set.

Cirstea conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Gasparyan in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, there was more work to do for Sorana to win the set because Margarita succeeded in breaking back in the 7^th (2-5) game.

Sorana failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Romanian scored 76 points vs. Margarita’s 63 points.

Sorana served exceptionally well to win 78% of the points (31/40) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 32% points (10/31) on her second serve. Sorana won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points because she converted only 38% (5/13). On the other side, Gasparyan was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (3/6). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Cirstea and Gasparyan is 1-0 for Sorana.

Next Match H2H: Sorana Cirstea vs. Julia Goerges – stats

Cirstea will play Goerges in the qualifications.

This will be the 5^th time that Sorana Cirstea and Julia Goerges face off. The head to head is 3-1 for Goerges (see full H2H stats), but Cirstea has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Goerges won 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Luxembourg back in 2019.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone – Elitsa KostovaKostova (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Natalia VikhlyantsevaVikhlyantseva (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro – Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Misaki DoiDoi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-4 3-6 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Luisa StefaniStefani (7-6¹ 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Sarah Beth GreyBeth Grey (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Angelina GabuevaGabueva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Xinyun HanHan – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (7-6² 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Ana BogdanBogdan – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Anna DanilinaDanilina – Varvara FlinkFlink (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Tena LukasLukas (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Xiaodi YouYou (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski – Vera PursnaniPursnani (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Saisai ZhengZheng (7-6(8) 6-4) – See score progression
• Kristina KucovaKucova – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (3-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Julia GoergesGoerges – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (3-1) – See H2H details
• Anna DanilinaDanilina – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (0-0) – See H2H details
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Ana BogdanBogdan (0-0) – See H2H details
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristina KucovaKucova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-0) – See H2H details
• Xinyun HanHan – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands (2-0) – See H2H details
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Gabriela DabrowskiDabrowski – Jennifer BradyBrady (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Belinda BencicBencic (2-2) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Petra MarticMartic (1-1) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-5) – See H2H details
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Kim ClijstersClijsters – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-4) – See H2H details