Aryna Sabalenka victorious over Anna Blinkova 1-6 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Sabalenka will seek to keep on going in this event against Katerina Siniakova in the quarter.
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Blinkova conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Sabalenka in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Blinkova reinforced her lead after breaking the Belarussian in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before conquering the set.
One of the most important stints of the set was when Blinkova won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the score from 0-0 to 4-0.
The Russian converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 0th (0-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 3rd (2-0 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (5-1 15-40). On the other side, the Belarussian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 4th game (0-3 30-40).
They contested 48 points. Blinkova won 10 more points than Sabalenka (29-19). Anna surrendered 7 points on serve (14-7). On the losing side, Aryna conceded 15 points on serve (12-15).
Sabalenka started the set in the best possible way after breaking Blinkova in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Sabalenka to win the set since the Russian found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. The Belarussian kept her cool to break Anna in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).
Aryna converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Blinkova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 2nd game (0-1 0-40).
They contested 63 points. The contest during this set was so even that the Belarussian won just 1 point more than the Russian (32-31). Sabalenka dropped 10 points on serve (16-10). on the other side of the net, Blinkova conceded 16 points on serve (21-16).
Sabalenka in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Blinkova and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking Blinkova in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Aryna was unerring in converting all her break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 40-A). On the other side, Blinkova wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2nd game (1-0 40-A).
They played 52 points. Sabalenka won 10 points more than Blinkova (31-21). The Belarussian conceded 7 points on serve (18-7). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 13 points on serve (14-13).
The Belarussian will add to her prize money € 806 after managing to win this match. She has won already € 4,153 after this win. If she wins the next match, Aryna will add € 2,061 to her earnings to get in total € 6,214 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Aryna scored 82 points vs. Anna’s 81.
The Belarussian was pretty effective at converting 67% of the break points that she procured (4/6). On the other side, Blinkova was sharp when converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sabalenka and Blinkova is 2-0 for Aryna.
Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs. Anna Blinkova Internationaux de Strasbourg – Strasbourg
Draw and next match H2H: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Katerina Siniakova – stats
Sabalenka will face Siniakova in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Aryna Sabalenka and Katerina Siniakova since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Strasbourg
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Nao HibinoHibino – Zarina DiyasDiyas (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Kiki BertensBertens (2-6 6-4 4-2 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Clara BurelBurel (6-3 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Magda LinetteLinette (7-60 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Alize CornetCornet (6-3 7-68) – Stats and score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-63 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Nao HibinoHibino (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
