Daria Kasatkina wins against Daria Saville 6-4 6-4 in the final in Granby on Saturday. The match lasted 1 hour and 53 minutes. She won this tournament after playing this event for the first time in her career.
Highlights Daria Kasatkina vs. Daria Saville Championnats Banque Nationale – Granby
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:53
At the end of the match, Kasatkina scored 73 points vs. the Australian’s 65.
Kasatkina
Darya won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 46% (6/13) of the procured opportunities.
Gavrilova
On the other side, Gavrilova was pretty good at converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Kasatkina and Gavrilova is 3-0 for Darya.
This was the 6th career title for Kasatkina. She won the previous title in San Jose. (see list of titles and finals). The Australian 3rd remains with 1 title after she conquered the tournament in New Haven 2017. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
Kasatkina was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Daria Saville in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more work to do for Kasatkina to win the set as Daria managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 9th (4-5) game. The Russian maintained her cool to break the Australian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game.
Kasatkina converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 40-A and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, the Australian converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 0-40) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 69 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Russian won just 3 more points than Gavrilova (36-33). The Russian dropped 12 points on serve (15-12). In addition, on the other side, Gavrilova conceded 21 points on serve (21-21).
Kasatkina won the set after she broke the Australian 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Gavrilova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Nonetheless, the Russian stayed solid to win the set 6-4.
The Russian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.
Daria lost the 8th game (5-3) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
The Russian converted 37% of her break points (3/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40 and 15-40), the 8th (4-3 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, the Australian converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 7th (2-4 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40).
They contested 73 points. Kasatkina was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than Daria (39-34). Kasatkina surrendered 15 points on serve (19-15). on the other side of the net, Daria conceded 20 points on serve (19-20).
