
Anastasia Potapova hustles Veronika Kudermetova 7-5 6-7(7) 6-4 in the 3rd round in Brisbane on Thursday in what was an all-Russian contest. Potapova will play Elena Rybakina in the quarter. The epic lasted 3 hours and 26 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do was reach the 1st round in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Anastasia added to her prize money $ 17,600 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 38,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Anastasia will add $ 41,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 79,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Anastasia scored 124 points vs. Kudermetova’s 113.
Potapova
Anastasia won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points since she converted only 33% (5/15) of the procured opportunities.
Kudermetova
On the other side, Kudermetova wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Potapova and Kudermetova is 2-3 for Veronika.
Draw and next match H2H: Anastasia Potapova vs. Elena Rybakina – stats
Potapova will face Rybakina in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Anastasia Potapova and Elena Rybakina square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Potapova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Potapova won 7-5 6-2 in the quarter in Rome back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Potapova had a strong start of this set after breaking Veronika Kudermetova in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Anastasia found the way to come back to break Veronika in the 10th (5-5) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Anastasia failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 15.
Kudermetova was powerless in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 3-5 to 7-5.
Potapova converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 10th (4-5 40-A and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Kudermetova converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 5th game (3-1 30-40).
They contested 84 points. Anastasia conquered the set after winning 6 points more than Kudermetova (45-39). Anastasia conceded 14 points on serve (27-14). Regarding the other side of the net, Kudermetova conceded 18 points on serve (25-18).
Potapova took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Veronika Kudermetova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, Veronika was not done to come back to break Potapova in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (7-6).
Veronika failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 30.
A defining moment of this set was when Veronika won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 1-4 to 5-4.
Kudermetova was spot on in converting all her break points in the 7th (2-4 15-40), the 9th (4-4 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A). In addition on the other side, Potapova was unerring in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 9th (4-5 15-40 and 30-40) and the 14th game (5-7 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 102 points. Veronika was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Potapova (54-48). Veronika dropped 18 points on serve (27-18). On the other side, Potapova conceded 27 points on serve (30-27).
Potapova won the set after she broke Veronika in the 8th (4-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game.
Potapova converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40). On the other side, Anastasia didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 51 points. Anastasia won 13 more points than Veronika (32-19). Potapova was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (20-3). In addition, on the other side, Veronika conceded 12 points on serve (16-12).
Tennis Scores in Brisbane
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-5 6-77 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elise MertensMertens (6-1 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Clara BurelBurel (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Julia RieraRiera (6-1 6-74 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-0) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H details and stats