DOHA RESULTS. Elena Rybakina gets the better of Cirstea in the 1st round of the Qatar Total Open

Elena Rybakina bests Sorana Cirstea 3-6 6-3 6-1 in the 1^st round in Doha on Monday. Rybakina will play Alison Van Uytvanck in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Cirstea came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Rybakina in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Cirstea to win the set because the Kazakhstani succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Cirstea maintained her focus to break Elena in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

2^nd set.

Rybakina won the set after she broke Cirstea 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. The Romanian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (3-3) game. Nevertheless, the Kazakhstani managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-3.

3^rd set.

Rybakina had a strong start of this set after breaking Cirstea in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Rybakina managed to strengthen her lead after breaking the Romanian in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Kazakhstani scored 89 points vs. the Romanian’s 77 points.

Rybakina was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (6/9). On the other side, Cirstea was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (4/6). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

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

Highlights Elena Rybakina vs. Sorana Cirstea Qatar Total Open – Doha

Next Match H2H: Elena Rybakina vs. Alison Van Uytvanck – stats

Rybakina will fight against Van Uytvanck in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Elena Rybakina and Alison Van Uytvanck fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rybakina (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Rybakina won 6-3 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Hertogenbosch back in 2019.

Tennis Scores in Doha

• 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
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Misaki DoiDoi (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Timea BabosBabos (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (3-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Alison RiskeRiske (7-6¹⁰ 1-6 7-6³) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Cagla BuyukakcayBuyukakcay (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-5 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Polona HercogHercog (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Priscilla HonHon (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (7-6⁶ 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Magda LinetteLinette (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Qiang WangWang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-1) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Sofia KeninKenin (1-1) – See H2H details
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-1) – See H2H details
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – See H2H details
• Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-6) – See H2H details
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (3-1) – See H2H details
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Saisai ZhengZheng (0-0) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-1) – See H2H details