When Sevastova defeated Gauff at the US Open. Can Coco avenge this at the Miami Open?

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 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Anastasija to win the set because Gauff succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1) game. Anastasija kept her cool to break Cori in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

Anastasija was on the money in converting all her break points in the 1^st

(0-0 30-40), the 5^th (2-2 40-A) and the 9^th game (5-3 0-40). On the other side, Cori converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 2^nd 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 1^st 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 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. Cori maintained her focus to break the Latvian in the 7^th (3-4), in the 9^th (5-4) and in the 11^th (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 10^th game (6-4).