Sloane Stephens gets the better of Caty McNally 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 1st round in Romagna Open on Monday in what was an all-American affair. Stephens will fight against Daria Kasatkina in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 56 minutes.
Sloane added to her prize money € 806 after winning this match. She has won already € 2,963 after this win. If she wins the next match, Sloane will add € 1,714 to her earnings to get in total € 4,677 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:56
At the end of the match, Stephens scored 79 points vs. Caty’s 69.
Stephens
Stephens was sharp when converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9).
McNally
On the other side, Caty didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that she conquered points (4/7). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Stephens and McNally is 1-0 for Sloane.
Draw and next match H2H: Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina – stats
Stephens will fight against Kasatkina in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Sloane Stephens and Daria Kasatkina square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Stephens (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Stephens won 6-3 6-1 in the quarter in Paris back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Kasatkina enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Stephens in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Stephens succeeded in coming back to break Caty in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set at the breaker at 4.
A defining moment of this set was when Stephens won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the score from 0-2 to 5-2.
Tiebreak
Stephens won 5 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 6th (5-1), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, McNally won 2 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3) and 8th (3-5) point.
Sloane won the tiebreak 7-4 after she conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Sloane converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 40-A), the 4th (1-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 6th game (3-2 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, McNally converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 9th game (3-5 0-40).
They contested 87 points. Stephens was the one to win the set after conquering 9 points more than McNally (48-39). Stephens lost 13 points on serve (21-13). on the other side of the net, Caty conceded 27 points on serve (26-27).
Sloane won the set after she broke Caty 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Caty tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (3-3) game. Nevertheless, Sloane maintained the focus to conquer the set 6-4.
Stephens converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (2-2 0-40), the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40). In addition on the other side, Caty converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (1-2 0-40) and the 6th game (2-3 40-A).
They contested 61 points. Stephens was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than Caty (33-28). Stephens lost 15 points on serve (16-15). Regarding the other side of the net, McNally conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
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