Misaki Doi surprises Petra Martic 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Tuesday. Doi will square off with Maria Sakkari in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes. This run will match her best achievement in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Japanese added to her prize money $ 3,190 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 11,500 after this win. If she wins the next match, Misaki will add $ 9,575 to her earnings to get in total $ 21,075 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Misaki scored 71 points vs. Martic’s 51.
Doi
Doi served extremely well to win 82% of the points (28/34) behind her first serve, and she won 69% points (11/16) on her second serve. The Japanese won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Martic
On the other side, Petra was battling in converting her break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Doi and Martic is 2-1 for Misaki.
Draw and next match H2H: Misaki Doi vs. Maria Sakkari – stats
Doi will play Sakkari in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Misaki Doi and Maria Sakkari play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Doi (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Doi won 7-60 ret. in the 1st round in Nurnberg back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Doi started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Petra Martic in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, that was not enough for Misaki to win the set as the Croatian succeeded in breaking back in the 7th (3-4) game.
Misaki converted 14% of her break points (1/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 10th (5-4 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). In addition on the other side, Martic converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 6th game (2-4 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 88 points. Misaki conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Petra (49-39). Doi conceded 10 points on serve (27-10). On the losing side, Martic conceded 22 points on serve (29-22).
Misaki in this set was much more effective than Petra and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Martic in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Petra lost the 8th game (6-2) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
Doi was perfect in converting all her break points in the 4th (2-1 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A). On the other side, the Japanese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 35 points. The Japanese won 9 more points than Martic (22-13). Doi was perfect on serve to concede just 1 point during her serving games (12-1). On the losing side, the Croatian conceded 10 points on serve (12-10).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Misaki DoiDoi – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Marta KostyukKostyuk (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Despina PapamichailPapamichail – Sakura HosogiHosogi (7-63 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-77 6-1 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Kayla DayDay – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Rina SaigoSaigo (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Nao HibinoHibino (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-0 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