Oceane Dodin stuns Clara Burel 6-2 6-4 in the 3rd round in Melbourne on Saturday in what was an all-French player encounter. Dodin will face off with Qinwen Zheng in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2015 and 2017. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Dodin added to her prize money $ 120,000 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 375,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Dodin will add $ 225,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 600,000 in total.
Highlights Oceane Dodin vs. Clara Burel Australian Open – Melbourne
Dodin’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Oceane scored 66 points vs. Clara’s 50.
Dodin
Oceane won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.
Burel
On the other side, Clara was great in converting all her break points (2/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Dodin and Burel is 1-0 for Oceane.
Draw and next match H2H: Oceane Dodin vs. Qinwen Zheng – stats
Dodin will square off with Zheng in the 4th round.
This will be the 4th time that Oceane Dodin and Qinwen Zheng fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Zheng won 6-2 6-1 in the quarter in W100 Contrexeville back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Dodin in this set was too good for Burel and without struggling too much she won 6-2 after breaking Clara in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Oceane failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 15.
Burel was completely outplayed in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Dodin converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 5th (3-2 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A). On the other side, Dodin didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 61 points. Dodin won 13 more points than Burel (37-24). Oceane lost 7 points on serve (20-7). on the other side of the court, Clara conceded 17 points on serve (17-17).
Oceane won the set after she broke Burel 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Burel tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. However, Oceane refused to give way to conquer the set 6-4.
Dodin failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.
Dodin converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40), the 8th (4-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Clara was on the money in converting all her break points in the 5th (1-3 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40).
They played 55 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Oceane won just 3 points more than Burel (29-26). Oceane dropped 14 points on serve (14-14). on the other side of the court, Burel conceded 15 points on serve (12-15).
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
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- Oceane DodinDodin – Clara BurelBurel (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (7-61 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-1 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Sloane StephensStephens (6-78 6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Yafan WangWang (6-4 2-6 7-68) – Stats and score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-2 2-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Diane ParryParry (1-6 6-1 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (2-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-0 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Alycia ParksParks (6-0 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (7-67 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Storm HunterHunter (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Oceane DodinDodin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (4-1) – H2H details and stats