Maria Sakkari motors past Yue Yuan 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Monday after playing a marvellous match to square off with Diana Shnaider in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes. Her best result in this competition was reaching the 4th round in 2020 and 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Sakkari added to her prize money $ 52,600 after winning this match. She has won already $ 158,850 after this win. If she wins the next match, Maria will add $ 69,075 to her earnings to get in total $ 227,925 in total.
Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Yue Yuan Australian Open – Melbourne
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Sakkari scored 75 points vs. Yuan’s 54.
Sakkari
Sakkari served extremely well to win 87% of the points (20/23) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (10/20) on her second serve. Sakkari won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 38% (5/13) of the procured opportunities.
Yuan
On the other side, Yuan was not so effective in converting her break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Yuan is 1-0 for Maria.
Draw and next match H2H: Maria Sakkari vs. Diana Shnaider – stats
Sakkari will play Shnaider in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Maria Sakkari and Diana Shnaider since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Maria was far too good to drop only 1 game before breaking Yuan 3 times and wrap up the set 6-1.
Yuan was powerless in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 0-1 to 6-1.
They played 59 points. Maria was the one to win the set after conquering 13 more points than Yue (36-23). Sakkari conceded 6 points on serve (15-6). on the other side of the net, Yue conceded 21 points on serve (17-21).
Sakkari conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Yue Yuan in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Maria refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Chinese in the 6th (3-3) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Maria converted 25% of her break points (2/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 0-40), the 8th (4-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Yue was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 0-40).
They played 87 points. Maria was the winner of the set after clinching 9 more points than Yuan (48-39). The Greek lost 7 points on serve (16-7). On the losing side, the Chinese conceded 32 points on serve (32-32).
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