DOHA RESULTS. Anisimova defeats Alexandrova in the 1st round of the Qatar Total Open

Amanda Anisimova overcomes Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-3 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Doha on Sunday. Anisimova is going to play against Elina Svitolina in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Amanda conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

The American won the set after she broke Ekaterina in the 7^th (4-3) game. The Russian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. Nevertheless, the American didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Anisimova scored 87 points vs. Ekaterina’s 74 points.

Anisimova won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points because she converted only 20% (2/10). On the other side, Ekaterina was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 13% – 1/8). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Anisimova and Alexandrova is 1-0 for Amanda.

Next Match H2H: Amanda Anisimova vs. Elina Svitolina – stats

Anisimova will come up against Svitolina in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Amanda Anisimova and Elina Svitolina clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Svitolina won 6-4 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Cincinnati back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Doha

• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Polona HercogHercog (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jil Teichmann
  Teichmann (7-5 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Priscilla HonHon (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Magda LinetteLinette (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (7-6⁶ 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Cagla BuyukakcayBuyukakcay (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (0-1) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (4-1) – See H2H details
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (0-3) – See H2H details
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-0) – See H2H details
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva (0-1) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-3) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (1-1) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-0) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-1) – See H2H details
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (3-1) – See H2H details
• Kiki BertensBertens – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details