Anastasia Potapova brushes past Marta Kostyuk 6-1 6-3 in the 2nd round in Miami on Thursday after playing a remarkable match to deal with Cori Gauff in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reach the 1st round in 2021. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
The Russian added to her prize money $ 24,885 after winning this match. She has already won $ 55,770 after this win. If she wins the next match, Potapova will add $ 41,185 to her earnings to get in total $ 96,955 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Anastasia scored 71 points vs. Marta’s 45.
Potapova
The Russian served exceptionally well to win 89% of the points (24/27) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (9/15) on her second serve. The Russian won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points since she converted only 25% (4/16) of the procured opportunities.
Kostyuk
On the other side, Kostyuk wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Potapova and Kostyuk is 1-0 for Anastasia.
Draw and next match H2H: Anastasia Potapova vs. Cori Gauff – stats
Potapova will come up against Gauff in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Anastasia Potapova and Cori Gauff face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Gauff (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Gauff won 5-0 ret. in the 2nd round in Montreal back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Potapova had a racing start in this set after breaking Marta Kostyuk in the 1st game (1-0). Potapova reinforced her lead after breaking Marta in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
Potapova failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 40.
The Ukrainian was completely outplayed in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 2-1 to 6-1.
Potapova converted 37% of her break points (3/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (3-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (5-1 0-40). On the other side, Kostyuk wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th game (0-6 30-40).
They played 54 points. Potapova was the one to win the set after conquering 16 points more than Kostyuk (35-19). The Russian dropped 7 points on serve (17-7). On the other side, the Ukrainian conceded 18 points on serve (12-18).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Anastasia clinched in the 6th game (4-2) before ultimately winning the set (6-3).
Potapova converted 12% of her break points (1/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 6th game (3-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Anastasia didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 62 points. Potapova conquered the set after winning 10 points more than the Ukrainian (36-26). Potapova was extremely solid on serve to drop just 2 points (16-2). In addition, on the other side, Marta conceded 20 points on serve (24-20).
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