Maria Sakkari hustles Yulia Putintseva 6-4 7-69 in the 2nd round in New York on Monday. Sakkari will try to keep the momentum against Serena Williams in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Maria conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Sakkari was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 10th game (5-4 0-40). On the other side, Maria didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 49 points. Maria was the winner of the set after clinching 9 more points than Putintseva (29-20). The Greek was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (20-4). on the other side of the court, the Kazakhstani conceded 9 points on serve (16-9).
Maria won the set after she broke the Kazakhstani in the 4th (3-1) game. Putintseva tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. However, Maria refused to give way to ultimately clinch the set at the following breaker at 9.
Tiebreak
Sakkari won 5 minibreaks in the 6th (3-3), 11th (6-5), 14th (7-7), 19th (10-9) and 20th (11-9) point. On the other side, Yulia won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 12th (6-6) and 13th (7-6) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 1-3, 2-3, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 7-7, 7-8, 8-8, 9-8, 9-9, 10-9, 11-c
The Greek converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40 and 40-A) and the 4th game (2-1 0-40). The Greek saved 2 set points when she was 6-7 and 7-8 down. On the other side, Yulia was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th game (1-3 30-40).
They contested 88 points. The Greek conquered the set after winning 4 more points than Putintseva (46-42). The Greek surrendered 13 points on serve (28-13). Regarding the other side of the net, Putintseva conceded 18 points on serve (29-18).
Sakkari will add to her prize money $ 7,800 after winning this match. She has won already $ 22,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Sakkari will add $ 21,000 to her earnings to earn $ 43,000 in total.
Match Statistics
At the end of the match, Maria scored 75 points vs. Putintseva’s 62.
Maria served pretty well to win 79% of the points (30/38) behind her first serve, and she won 68% points (19/28) on her second serve. The Greek didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (2/4). On the other side, The Kazakhstani was fantastic in converting the only break point that she converted. Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Putintseva is 2-1 for Maria.
Draw and next match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Serena Williams – stats
Sakkari will face Williams in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Serena Williams since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in New York
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- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 7-68) – Stats and score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-75 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Arantxa RusRus (7-66 3-6 7-60) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 7-69) – Stats and score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-1 6-75 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (2-6 7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Bernarda PeraPera (7-65 4-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Madison KeysKeys (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Sofia KeninKenin (6-1 7-67) – Stats and score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-0) – H2H details and stats