Veronika Kudermetova dispatches Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in Dubai on Monday. Kudermetova will seek to keep on going in this event against Dayana Yastremska in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Russian won the set after she broke Mattek-Sands in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Bethanie tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Anyhow, the Russian maintained the focus before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
Kudermetova was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Mattek-Sands in the 1st game (1-0). Veronika reinforced her lead after breaking Bethanie in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Veronika scored 65 points vs. Bethanie’s 49 points.
Veronika was pretty effective in converting 57% of the break points that she procured (4/7). On the other side, the American had a tough time converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Kudermetova and Mattek-Sands is 1-0 for Veronika.
Next Match H2H: Veronika Kudermetova vs. Dayana Yastremska – stats
Kudermetova will compete against Yastremska in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Veronika Kudermetova and Dayana Yastremska face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kudermetova won 6-4 6-0 in the quarter in Tianjin back in 2019.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Polona HercogHercog (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (5-7 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-1) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-0) – See H2H details
- Petra MarticMartic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (1-2) – See H2H details
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-4) – See H2H details
- Sofia KeninKenin – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-4) – See H2H details
- Simona HalepHalep – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – See H2H details