Mai Hontama stuns Dayana Yastremska 7-6(4) 7-5 in the 1st round in Hua Hin on Tuesday. Hontama will engage against Lanlana Tararudee in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 12 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2024. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
The Japanese added to her prize money $ 1,150 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 4,040 after this win. If she wins the next match, Mai will add $ 2,568 to her earnings to get in total $ 6,608 in total.
Highlights Mai Hontama vs. Dayana Yastremska Thailand Open – Hua Hin
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Japanese scored 90 points vs. Yastremska’s 84.
Hontama
The Japanese was effective at converting 56% of the break points that she conquered (5/9).
Yastremska
On the other side, the Ukrainian was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (4/8). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Hontama and Yastremska is 1-0 for Mai.
Draw and next match H2H: Mai Hontama vs. Lanlana Tararudee – stats
Hontama will fight against Tararudee in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Mai Hontama and Lanlana Tararudee since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The Japanese won the set after she broke the Ukrainian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Dayana tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (4-4) game. Notwithstanding, the Japanese maintained the focus to win the set 7-6.
The Japanese converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (3-3 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Dayana was flawless in converting all her break points in the 6th (2-3 40-A), the 8th (3-4 30-40) and the 14th game (5-7 0-40).
They contested 96 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Japanese won this set even if she scored less points 6 than the Ukrainian (45-51). Mai dropped 21 points on serve (21-21). on the other side of the net, Yastremska conceded 24 points on serve (30-24).
Hontama started the set in the best possible way after breaking Dayana Yastremska in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more work to do for the Japanese to win the set because Dayana found the way to break back in the 9th (5-4) game. The Japanese kept her cool to break Yastremska in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (7-5) game.
Hontama converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 0-40), the 8th (4-3 30-40 and 40-A), the 10th (4-5 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Dayana converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had her opportunities in the 9th (4-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 78 points. The Japanese won 10 more points than Dayana (44-34). Hontama dropped 10 points on serve (19-10). In addition, on the other side, Yastremska conceded 25 points on serve (24-25).
Tennis Scores in Hua Hin
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- Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Anna BondarBondar (3-6 7-62 7-5)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-2 7-5)
- Xinyu WangWang – Mayar SherifSherif (6-2 6-4)
- Xinyu GaoGao – Sijia WeiWei (6-3 6-2)
- Mai HontamaHontama – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-64 7-5)
- Arianne HartonoHartono – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-1 6-1)
- Jana FettFett – Saisai ZhengZheng (2-6 6-3 6-3)
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Ksenia LaskutovaLaskutova (6-1 6-0)
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Clara TausonTauson (7-62 4-6 6-3)
- Xiyu WangWang – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (7-5 6-1)
- Lanlana TararudeeTararudee – Thasaporn NakloNaklo (6-0 6-1)
- Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Tatiana ProzorovaProzorova (2-6 6-3 6-1)
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Taylah PrestonPreston (6-1 6-4)
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Arina RodionovaRodionova (7-5 6-1)
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Alycia ParksParks (6-4 6-3)
Upcoming matches
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- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Rebeka MasarovaMasarova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Jana FettFett (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Magda LinetteLinette (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-0) – H2H details and stats