Donna Vekic gets the better of Katherine Hui 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in San Diego on Tuesday. Vekic will play Marina Stakusic in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. Her best result in this event was reaching the final in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Croatian added to her prize money $ 3,770 after winning this match. She has already won $ 13,590 after this win. If she wins the next match, Vekic will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.
Highlights Donna Vekic vs. Katherine Hui San Diego Open – San Diego
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 70 points vs. Hui’s 45.
Vekic
Vekic served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (24/31) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 38% points (11/29) on her second serve. Vekic was pretty good at converting 70% of the break points that she conquered (7/10).
Hui
On the other side, the American had some problems converting her break points (only 40% – 4/10). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Vekic and Hui is 1-0 for Donna.
Draw and next match H2H: Donna Vekic vs. Marina Stakusic – stats
Vekic will come up against Stakusic in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Donna Vekic and Marina Stakusic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Vekic conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Katherine Hui in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Vekic refused to bow to come back to break Hui 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Vekic failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 30.
One of the most important stints of the set was when the Croatian won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the score from 0-1 to 4-1.
The Croatian was perfect in converting all her break points in the 2nd (1-1 15-40), the 4th (2-1 0-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40). On the other side, Hui converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 8th (3-5 15-40 and 30-40) and the 13th game (4-7 30-40).
They contested 72 points. The Croatian won 10 points more than Hui (41-31). The Croatian conceded 18 points on serve (24-18). on the other side of the court, Hui conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
The Croatian played at a much higher level than the American and without many problems she won 6-2. Hui broke the Croatian 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, Vekic broke her opponent in the 5th (3-2) game, but that didn’t stop her to conquer the set (6-2).
Donna converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 15-40), the 6th (3-2 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40). In addition on the other side, Hui converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 5th (1-3 30-40) and the 7th game (2-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 43 points. The Croatian won 15 more points than Hui (29-14). Donna dropped 7 points on serve (11-7). on the other side of the court, Hui conceded 18 points on serve (7-18).
Tennis Scores in San Diego
- Donna VekicVekic – Katherine HuiHui (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
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- Taylah PrestonPreston – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Mai HontamaHontama (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-4 5-7 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Ann LiLi (6-4 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Xinyu WangWang – Clara TausonTauson (6-2 2-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Daria SavilleSaville – Lin ZhuZhu (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jule NiemeierNiemeier – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Marina StakusicStakusic – Marina MelnikovaMelnikova (6-4 5-7 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
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