Iga Swiatek mullers Daria Kasatkina 6-2 6-3 in the 3rd round in Melbourne on Saturday after playing an extraordinary match to square off with Sorana Cirstea in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes. This run will match her best achievement in this event. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Pole added to her prize money $ 120,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 300,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Pole will add $ 300,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 600,000 in total.
Highlights Iga Swiatek vs. Daria Kasatkina Australian Open – Melbourne
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Swiatek scored 73 points vs. Darya’s 60.
Swiatek
The Pole was effective at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8).
Kasatkina
On the other side, Kasatkina was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Swiatek and Kasatkina is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Iga Swiatek vs. Sorana Cirstea – stats
Swiatek will fight against Cirstea in the 4th round.
There is no head to head record between Iga Swiatek and Sorana Cirstea since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Swiatek in this set was too good for Darya and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Kasatkina in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Pole converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A). On the other side, Kasatkina was unable to convert any of her 4 break points. She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (2-4 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 67 points. Swiatek won 7 points more than the Russian (37-30). Iga surrendered 13 points on serve (22-13). on the other side of the net, Darya conceded 15 points on serve (17-15).
Swiatek had a favorable start in this set after breaking Daria Kasatkina in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Pole to win the set since the Russian managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Swiatek maintained her focus to break Darya in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
The Pole converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 6th game (3-2 30-40). In addition on the other side, Darya converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had her opportunities in the 0th (0-1 40-A), the 3rd (0-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 5th game (2-2 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 66 points. The Pole was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than Darya (36-30). Swiatek surrendered 16 points on serve (24-16). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (14-12).
Tennis Scores at the
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- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Alize CornetCornet – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 2-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Clara TausonTauson (4-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (7-63 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-2 5-7 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (4-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-0 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (2-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Qiang WangWang (4-6 6-3 7-62) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Madison KeysKeys – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Simona HalepHalep – Alize CornetCornet (1-3) – H2H details and stats
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Kaia KanepiKanepi – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-0) – H2H details and stats