Ruthless Sorana Cirstea exterminates Sakkari in the 2nd round to collide vs Kasatkina at the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open – ABU DHABI RESULTS

Sorana Cirstea obliterates Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-1 in the 2^nd round in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday after playing a remarkable match to come up against Daria Kasatkina in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes. This will be her best result in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.

Abu Dhabi

Cirstea's Record

The Romanian added to her prize money $ 11,030 after winning this match. She has already won $ 24,200 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Romanian will add $ 27,005 to her earnings to get in total $ 51,205 in total.

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Cirstea

Sakkari

6-2 6-1
1h:16

66

66

Total points

46

46

24

24

Winners

21

21

36%

36%

Ratio Winners

46%

46%

-- Serve --

1

1

Aces

0

0

1

1

Double Faults

6

6

67%

67%

1st in

59%

59%

75%

75%

1st won

55%

55%

24/32

24/32

1st won

21/38

21/38

56%

56%

2nd won

38%

38%

9/16

9/16

2nd won

10/26

10/26

-- Break Points --

5/16

5/16

Total

0/6

0/6

31%

31%

Won

0%

0%

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At the end of the match, the Romanian scored 66 points vs. Maria’s 46.

Cirstea

Sorana served extremely well to win 75% of the points (24/32) behind her first serve, and she won 56% points (9/16) on her second serve. Sorana won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 31% (5/16) of the procured opportunities.

Sakkari

On the other side, Sakkari wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/6). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Cirstea and Sakkari is 3-1 for Sorana.

Draw and next match H2H: Sorana Cirstea vs. Daria Kasatkina – stats

Cirstea will compete against Kasatkina in the quarter.

This will be the 3^rd time that Sorana Cirstea and Daria Kasatkina face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Cirstea and Kasatkina (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Cirstea won 6-3 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Paris back in 2021.

Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi

• Ons JabeurJabeur – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Magda LinetteLinette (7-6⁶ 6-7¹ 6-1) – Stats and score progression
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression

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