Tatjana Maria ousts Yuliia Starodubtseva 2-6 6-1 6-2 in the 1st round in Singapore on Tuesday. Maria will try to keep the momentum against Elise Mertens in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 2 minutes.
Tatjana added to her prize money $ 1,185 after winning this match. She has already won $ 4,160 after this win. If she wins the next match, Maria will add $ 2,655 to her earnings to get in total $ 6,815 in total.
Highlights Tatjana Maria vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva Singapore Open – Singapore
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Maria scored 83 points vs. Yulia’s 75.
Maria
Tatjana won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Starodubtsewa
On the other side, Yulia was battling in converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Maria and Starodubtsewa is 1-0 for Tatjana.
Draw and next match H2H: Tatjana Maria vs. Elise Mertens – stats
Maria will fight against Mertens in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Tatjana Maria and Elise Mertens play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Mertens won 6-1 4-6 6-0 in the 1st round in Stuttgart back in 2024.
The German was great in turning the match in the last 2 sets after losing the opener. In fact, she conceded only 3 games in the last 2 sets after winning 54 points vs. Mertens’s 38 points.
Tennis Scores in Singapore
- Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva – Xiyu WangWang (6-3 7-63)
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (2-6 6-0 6-3)
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (2-6 6-1 6-2)
- Olivia GadeckiGadecki – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-1 6-71 6-2)
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-2)
- Xinyu WangWang – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-4 5-7 7-5)
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Harriet DartDart (6-3 6-1)
- Elise MertensMertens – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-1 6-0)
- Dominika SalkovaSalkova – Erika AndreevaAndreeva (7-65 6-2)
- Ann LiLi – Daria SavilleSaville (6-3 6-1)
- Mananchaya SawangkaewSawangkaew – Sijia WeiWei (6-4 7-62)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-4 4-6 6-2)
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (5-7 7-5 7-5)
- Simona WaltertWaltert – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-2 6-3)
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Bernarda PeraPera (6-1 6-70 6-3)
- Maya JointJoint – Alycia ParksParks (4-6 6-1 7-5)
Upcoming matches
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Simona WaltertWaltert (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Mananchaya SawangkaewSawangkaew – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Olivia GadeckiGadecki – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H details and stats