Sorana Cirstea stuns Bernarda Pera 6-3 6-1 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells on Monday after playing a terrific match to play Caroline Garcia in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 7 minutes. This run will match her best achievement in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
Sorana added to her prize money $ 41,185 after winning this match. She has already won $ 96,955 after this win. If she wins the next match, Cirstea will add $ 87,510 to her earnings to get in total $ 184,465 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Romanian scored 60 points vs. Bernarda’s 39.
Cirstea
The Romanian served pretty well to win 86% of the points (19/22) behind her first serve, and she won 55% points (12/22) on her second serve. Sorana was absolutely great in converting all the break points (5/5).
Pera
On the other side, Bernarda was absolutely great in converting the only break point that she converted. Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Cirstea and Pera is 1-0 for Sorana.
Draw and next match H2H: Sorana Cirstea vs. Caroline Garcia – stats
Cirstea will compete against Garcia in the 4th round.
This will be the 3rd time that Sorana Cirstea and Caroline Garcia clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Garcia (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Garcia won 6-4 3-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in Madrid back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
Cirstea won the set after she broke the American in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game. Bernarda tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (5-2) game. Notwithstanding, the Romanian didn’t blink to conquer the set 6-3.
Sorana failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.
A defining moment of this set was when Cirstea won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to bring the game count from 1-1 to 5-1.
Cirstea was perfect in converting all her break points in the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 5th (4-1 30-40) and the 10th game (6-2 40-A). On the other side, Pera was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 7th game (1-5 30-40).
They contested 67 points. Sorana was the one to win the set after conquering 9 points more than Pera (38-29). Sorana lost 10 points on serve (19-10). Regarding the other side of the net, the American conceded 19 points on serve (19-19).
Cirstea started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Bernarda Pera in the 2nd game (2-0). The Romanian managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Bernarda in the 7th (6-1) game before conquering the set.
Bernarda couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-1 to 6-1.
Sorana was exemplary in converting all her break points in the 5th (3-1 15-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40). On the other side, Sorana didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 32 points. Cirstea was the one to win the set after conquering 12 points more than Bernarda (22-10). The Romanian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (12-3). Regarding the other side of the net, Pera conceded 10 points on serve (7-10).
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