Marta Kostyuk thumps Anastasia Potapova 6-0 7-5 in the quarter in Indian Wells on Thursday after playing a remarkable match to face off with Iga Swiatek in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2021 and 2022. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
The Ukrainian added to her prize money $ 140,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 325,000 up to now in the tournament. If she wins the next match, the Ukrainian will add $ 260,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 585,000.
Highlights Marta Kostyuk vs. Anastasia Potapova BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:08
At the end of the match, Kostyuk scored 65 points vs. the Russian’s 45.
Kostyuk
The Ukrainian didn’t lose the focus when converting 70% of the break points that she conquered (7/10).
Potapova
On the other side, Anastasia was sharp when converting 60% of the break points that she conquered points (3/5). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Kostyuk and Potapova is 1-4 for Anastasia.
Draw and next match H2H: Marta Kostyuk vs. Iga Swiatek – stats
Kostyuk will take on Swiatek in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Marta Kostyuk and Iga Swiatek fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Swiatek (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Swiatek won 6-3 6-4 in the 4th round in Paris back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much of a fight in this set since the Ukrainian conceded no games to Potapova before winning the set 6-0.
Marta failed to serve out the set when leading 6-0 to be broken at 15.
Potapova capitulated the 2nd game (2-0) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.
The Ukrainian converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 40-A) and the 6th game (5-0 0-40). On the other side, Kostyuk didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 44 points. The Ukrainian conquered the set after winning 20 more points than Anastasia (32-12). Kostyuk was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). on the other side of the net, Anastasia conceded 16 points on serve (8-16).
Kostyuk had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Anastasia Potapova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, that wasn’t sufficient for Marta to win the set as Anastasia succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (4-5) game. The Ukrainian kept her focus to break the Russian in the 6th (4-2), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 12th (7-5) game.
Kostyuk failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.
The Ukrainian converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 5th (3-2 40-A), the 7th (4-3 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40 and 40-A). Also, on the other side, the Russian converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had her opportunities in the 5th (1-3 0-40), the 7th (2-4 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 66 points. This set was so close that, The Ukrainian won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. Kostyuk surrendered 15 points on serve (12-15). Regarding the other side of the net, Anastasia conceded 21 points on serve (18-21).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma NavarroNavarro (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-0 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-4 1-0 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Yue YuanYuan (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Marta KostyukKostyuk () – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (3-4) – H2H details and stats
