Anastasia Potapova makes light work of Kristina Kucova 6-3 6-1 in the 1st round in Lausanne on Monday after playing a remarkable match to deal with Tamara Korpatsch in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Potapova conquered in the 9th game (6-3).
2nd set.
Kucova enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Potapova in the 1st game (1-0). However, the Russian refused to bow to come back to break Kristina 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Kucova couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).
At the end of the match, Potapova scored 63 points vs. Kristina’s 41 points.
The Russian served very well to win 81% of the points (21/26) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 41% points (13/32) on her second serve. Anastasia was sharp when converting 60% of the break points that she procured (6/10). On the other side, the Slovakian had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 29% of her break points (2/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Potapova and Kucova is 1-0 for Anastasia.
Next Match: Anastasia Potapova vs. Tamara Korpatsch – H2H and stats
Potapova will play Korpatsch in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Anastasia Potapova and Tamara Korpatsch since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
