Ekaterina Alexandrova defeats the defending champion Liudmila Samsonova 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Tokyo on Wednesday in what was an all-Russian match. Alexandrova will clash against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes.
Alexandrova added to her prize money $ 9,575 after winning this match. She has already won $ 21,075 after this win. If she wins the next match, Alexandrova will add $ 22,248 to her earnings to get in total $ 43,323 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ekaterina scored 63 points vs. Samsonova’s 43.
Alexandrova
Alexandrova served extremely well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind her first serve, and she won 58% points (14/24) on her second serve. Alexandrova was effective at converting 80% of the break points that she conquered (4/5).
Samsonova
On the other side, Ludmilla was battling in converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Alexandrova and Samsonova is 2-0 for Ekaterina.
Draw and next match H2H: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats
Alexandrova will take on Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Alexandrova won 6-3 7-5 in the quarter in Linz back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-3 4-6 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kayla DayDay (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Mai HontamaHontama (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Cristina BucsaBucsa (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Misaki DoiDoi – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Despina PapamichailPapamichail (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (4-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-1) – H2H details and stats