DOHA RESULTS. Maria Sakkari dispatches Goerges in the 1st round of the Qatar Total Open

Maria Sakkari overcomes Julia Goerges 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in Doha on Monday. Sakkari will have to play Tereza Martincova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sakkari didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Goerges in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Maria to win the set since Julia succeeded in breaking back in the 6^th (2-4) game.

Julia capitulated the 3^rd game (3-0) when she was 40-0 up.

A defining moment of this match was when Maria won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2^nd set.

Sakkari had a favorable start in this set after breaking Goerges in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, that was not enough for the Greek to win the set as Goerges managed to break back in the 8^th (3-5) game. Maria maintained her focus to break Goerges in the 9^th (6-3) game.

There was a pivotal moment in this set when the Greek won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Maria scored 71 points vs. Julia’s 57 points.

Sakkari won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points because she converted only 42% (5/12). On the other side, Julia didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Goerges is 2-3 for Julia.

Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Julia Goerges Qatar Total Open – Doha

Next Match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Tereza Martincova – stats

Sakkari will fight against Martincova in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Tereza Martincova since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Doha

• Saisai ZhengZheng – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Petra MarticMartic (4-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Misaki DoiDoi (6-2 3-6 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
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-5 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (7-6⁶ 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Polona HercogHercog (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Magda LinetteLinette (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Cagla BuyukakcayBuyukakcay (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 7-5) – See score progression

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