
Dayana Yastremska conquers Antonia Ruzic 7-5 6-1 in the 2nd round in Linz on Thursday. Yastremska will have to play Maria Sakkari in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 31 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Yastremska added to her prize money € 11,299 after conquering this match. She has already won € 24,950 after this win. If she wins the next match, Yastremska will add € 26,355 to her earnings to get in total € 51,305 in total.
Highlights Dayana Yastremska vs. Antonia Ruzic Upper Austria Ladies Linz – Linz
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Dayana scored 76 points vs. the Croatian’s 55.
Yastremska
Yastremska won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Ruzic
On the other side, the Croatian wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 29% – 2/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Yastremska and Ruzic is 1-0 for Dayana.
Draw and next match H2H: Dayana Yastremska vs. Maria Sakkari – stats
Yastremska will face Sakkari in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Dayana Yastremska and Maria Sakkari clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sakkari (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Sakkari won 7-5 6-4 in the 3rd round in Miami back in 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Yastremska overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Antonia Ruzic in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Dayana found the way to come back to break the Croatian in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Dayana failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 15.
Dayana was unable to break Ruzic in the 6th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
The Ukrainian converted 12% of her break points (1/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 8th (3-4 0-40 and 15-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Antonia converted 14% of her break points (1/7). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (4-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 11th (5-5 30-40) and the 13th game (4-7 15-40).
They played 100 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Yastremska won just 2 points more than Ruzic (51-49). Dayana conceded 26 points on serve (32-26). On the losing side, Ruzic conceded 19 points on serve (23-19).
The Ukrainian won the set after she broke the Croatian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game.
Ruzic was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-1 to 6-1.
Yastremska converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 0-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40). On the other side, Dayana didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 31 points. The Ukrainian won 19 points more than Antonia (25-6). Yastremska was extremely solid on serve to drop just 2 points (12-2). on the other side of the net, the Croatian conceded 13 points on serve (4-13).
Tennis Scores in Linz
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Antonia RuzicRuzic (7-5 6-1)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-3)
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-4 6-4)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-3 6-2)
- Petra MarticMartic – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-4 4-6 7-5)
- Clara TausonTauson – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 6-4)
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-3 6-2)
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (7-61 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Petra MarticMartic (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Clara TausonTauson – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-1) – H2H details and stats