Kyoka Okamura shocks Hailey Baptiste 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Tuesday. Okamura will square off with Katie Boulter in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 43 minutes. This will be her best result in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the qualifications in 2022. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Kyoka 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, Okamura will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.
Highlights Kyoka Okamura vs. Hailey Baptiste Toray Pan Pacific Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:43
At the end of the match, Kyoka scored 75 points vs. the American’s 61.
Okamura
Okamura served pretty well to win 76% of the points (31/41) behind her first serve, and she won 76% points (19/25) on her second serve. Kyoka won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points as she converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.
Baptiste
On the other side, Baptiste wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Okamura and Baptiste is 1-2 for Hailey.
Draw and next match H2H: Kyoka Okamura vs. Katie Boulter – stats
Okamura will compete against Boulter in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Kyoka Okamura and Katie Boulter fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Boulter (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Boulter won 6-2 6-4 in the qualifications in W25 Canberra back in 2020.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Kyoka OkamuraOkamura – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (7-64 6-3)
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Priscilla HonHon (6-1 6-4)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 6-4)
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-3 6-3)
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Mika StojsavljevicStojsavljevic (6-4 6-77 7-66)
- Sayaka IshiiIshii – Sara SaitoSaito (6-1 6-1)
- Clara TausonTauson – Nao HibinoHibino (6-2 6-3)
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-63 6-3)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (5-7 6-2 5-2 ret.)
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Mai HontamaHontama (6-1 7-64)
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi (7-5 6-3)
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-6 6-4 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Sofia KeninKenin – Clara TausonTauson (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-0) – H2H details and stats
