Anastasija Sevastova tops Cori Gauff is going to face Anastasija Sevastova at the Miami Open for the second time in her career. The 17-year-old was defeated by the Latvian in the 1st round of the US Open 6-3 5-7 6-4.
Coco and Anastasija will play again in Miami on Thursday at 8.30 pm on Grandstand. Gauff will definitely benefit from the support of the local drowd.
In the meantime, here the highlights and stats of their match in New York.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Sevastova scored 96 points vs. Gauff’s 89.
Sevastova
The Latvian was pretty focused in converting 54% of the break points that she conquered (7/13).
Gauff
On the other side, Cori was well focused in converting 63% of the break points that she procured points (5/8). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Sevastova and Gauff is 1-0 for Anastasija.
Live score progression and stats
Sevastova started the set in the best possible way after breaking in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Anastasija to win the set because Gauff succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Anastasija kept her cool to break Cori in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Anastasija was on the money in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40). On the other side, Cori converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 2nd game (0-1 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 54 points. The Latvian was the winner of the set after clinching 8 more points than the American (31-23). Sevastova lost 9 points on serve (15-9). On the other side, Cori conceded 16 points on serve (14-16).
conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Sevastova in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, there was more work to do for Cori to win the set since the Latvian succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (5-5) game. Cori maintained her focus to break the Latvian in the 7th (3-4), in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Cori failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 30.Nonetheless also Sevastova won 4 consecutive games from 0-2 to 4-2
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Sevastova conquered in the 10th game (6-4).