Jaqueline Cristian thumps Veronika Kudermetova 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Indian Wells on Thursday after playing a terrific match to play Leylah Annie Fernandez in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 44 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the qualifications in 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Cristian scored 76 points vs. Kudermetova’s 63.
Cristian
Jaqueline was sharp when converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6).
Kudermetova
On the other side, Kudermetova was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 17% – 1/6). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Cristian and Kudermetova is 3-1 for Jaqueline.
Draw and next match H2H: Jaqueline Cristian vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez – stats
Cristian will play Annie Fernandez in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Jaqueline Cristian and Leylah Annie Fernandez since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Cristian started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Veronika Kudermetova in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the Romanian managed to stage a great comeback to break Kudermetova 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Jaqueline failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 40.
Kudermetova was completely wiped out in the last 7 games of the set when the game count went from 0-2 to 6-2.
Jaqueline converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Kudermetova converted 20% of her break points (1/5). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 2nd (2-1 30-40) and the 9th game (1-6 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 77 points. The Romanian won 9 points more than Kudermetova (43-34). Cristian surrendered 16 points on serve (21-16). on the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 22 points on serve (18-22).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Jaqueline conquered in the 6th game (4-2) prior to ultimately conquering the set (6-3).
Jaqueline was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (3-2 40-A). On the other side, Veronika wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (1-1 30-40).
They contested 62 points. Jaqueline conquered the set after winning 4 points more than Kudermetova (33-29). The Romanian conceded 12 points on serve (21-12). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (17-12).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (6-3 6-2)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-2 6-3)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Maddison InglisInglis (6-2 6-1)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-1 6-1)
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-1 6-2)
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (6-4 7-5)
- Sonay KartalKartal – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (7-66 6-2)
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-4 ret.)
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (6-4 6-4)
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-75 6-4 7-5)
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-2 6-3)
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Maya JointJoint (6-2 7-5)
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Claire LiuLiu (6-4 6-2)
- Suzan LamensLamens – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (3-6 6-3 6-3)
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-2 7-63)
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- Ashlyn KruegerKrueger – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-6 6-2 6-2)
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