Veronika Kudermetova survives Dayana Yastremska 5-7 6-3 7-62 in the 1st round in Dubai on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Kudermetova will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Garbine Muguruza in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kudermetova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Yastremska in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the Ukrainian refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Russian 4 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 8th (4-4), in the 10th (5-5) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
2nd set.
Kudermetova won the set after she broke Dayana 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Dayana tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. However, the Russian kept the focus before winning the set 6-3.
3rd set.
Yastremska started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Kudermetova in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Kudermetova managed to stage a great comeback to break Dayana in the 8th (3-5) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 2.
A defining moment of this match was when Kudermetova 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, Kudermetova scored 110 points vs. Yastremska’s 103 points.
Kudermetova didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that she conquered (8/14). On the other side, Dayana was effective in converting 54% of the break points that she conquered points (7/13). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Kudermetova and Yastremska is 2-0 for Veronika.
Highlights Veronika Kudermetova vs. Dayana Yastremska Dubai Duty Free Championships – Dubai
Next Match H2H: Veronika Kudermetova vs. Garbine Muguruza – stats
Kudermetova will take on Muguruza in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Veronika Kudermetova and Garbine Muguruza since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sofia KeninKenin (6-72 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (5-7 6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Belinda BencicBencic (1-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-63 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kim ClijstersClijsters (6-2 7-66) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Alison RiskeRiske (7-63 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Simona HalepHalep – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (2-2) – See H2H details
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details
- Petra MarticMartic – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (3-1) – See H2H details
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (3-2) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-2) – See H2H details
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-3) – See H2H details
