Daria Kasatkina blitzes Elise Mertens 6-3 6-2 in the semifinal in San Jose on Saturday after playing a superlative match. The match lasted 1 hour and 21 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Darya added to her prize money $ 18,600 after conquering this match. She has won already $ 51,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Russian will add $ 17,570 to her earnings to get in total $ 68,570 in total.
Highlights Daria Kasatkina vs. Elise Mertens Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic – San Jose
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 72 points vs. Elise’s 52.
Kasatkina
Darya served extremely well to win 83% of the points (33/40) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 42% points (5/12) on her second serve. Kasatkina won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points after she converted only 21% (3/14) of the procured opportunities.
Mertens
On the other side, the Belgian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Kasatkina and Mertens is 3-1 for Darya.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Kasatkina snatched in the 8th game (5-3) just before eventually winning the set (6-3).
They played 56 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than the Belgian (33-23). Darya dropped 8 points on serve (23-8). In addition, on the other side, the Belgian conceded 10 points on serve (15-10).
Darya in this set didn’t concede much to Mertens and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Mertens in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Mertens was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-2 to 6-2.
Darya converted 20% of her break points (2/10). She had 10 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 3rd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A), the 4th (2-2 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Kasatkina didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 64 points. Kasatkina conquered the set after winning 12 points more than the Belgian (38-26). Kasatkina conceded 5 points on serve (16-5). In addition, on the other side, the Belgian conceded 22 points on serve (21-22).
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