
Donna Vekic conquers Elina Avanesyan 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells on Saturday. Vekic is going to play against Emma Navarro in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023 and 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 68 points vs. Avanesyan’s 44.
Vekic
The Croatian was pretty focused in converting 55% of the break points that she conquered (6/11).
Avanesyan
On the other side, Elina had a tough time converting her break points (only 38% – 3/8). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Vekic and Avanesyan is 2-0 for Donna.
Draw and next match H2H: Donna Vekic vs. Emma Navarro – stats
Vekic will fight against Navarro in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Donna Vekic and Emma Navarro square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Vekic won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Monterrey back in 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Vekic got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Elina Avanesyan in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Vekic to win the set as Elina managed to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. The Croatian kept her cool to break the Armenian in the 9th (6-3) game.
Donna won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .
The Croatian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 40.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Vekic won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to bring the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
The Croatian converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (2-0 0-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Elina converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 6th (1-4 15-40) and the 8th game (3-4 40-A).
They played 62 points. The Croatian won 14 more points than the Armenian (38-24). The Croatian dropped 15 points on serve (22-15). On the losing side, Avanesyan conceded 16 points on serve (9-16).
Vekic had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Elina Avanesyan in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for the Croatian to win the set as Avanesyan managed to break back in the 5th (1-4) and in the 7th (2-5) game. Donna kept her cool to break Elina in the 6th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-3).
The Croatian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.
Donna lost a big opportunity to break Avanesyan in the 8th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Vekic converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 4th (3-0 15-40), the 6th (4-1 0-40) and the 8th game (5-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). Also, on the other side, Avanesyan converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had her opportunities in the 5th (0-4 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (1-5 30-40).
They contested 50 points. The Croatian conquered the set after winning 10 more points than the Armenian (30-20). The Croatian surrendered 13 points on serve (14-13). on the other side of the net, Avanesyan conceded 16 points on serve (7-16).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Mccartney KesslerKessler (7-64 6-3)
- Donna VekicVekic – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-3 6-3)
- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-2)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (3-6 6-1 7-63)
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-0 6-3)
- Madison KeysKeys – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-3 6-0)
- Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 7-5)
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Caty McNallyMcNally (7-68 6-4)
- Sonay KartalKartal – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-2 6-1)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Sofia KeninKenin (3-6 7-5 6-4)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Iva JovicJovic (7-63 1-6 6-3)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-4 6-73 6-1)
- Elise MertensMertens – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (6-4 7-5)
- Cori GauffGauff – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-4 3-6 7-64)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Alycia ParksParks (6-1 6-1)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (5-7 7-65 6-3)
- Clara TausonTauson – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (7-63 7-5)
- Xinyu WangWang – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-4 6-4)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-1 6-3)
- Lulu SunSun – Linda NoskovaNoskova (6-1 6-4)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (6-3 6-4)
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-72 6-3 6-0)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-1 6-78 6-3)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-2 6-0)
- Caroline DolehideDolehide – Eva LysLys (7-63 6-4)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 6-3)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (5-7 6-2 6-4)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-3)
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-3 6-1)
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-2 6-2)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (7-5 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (3-5) – H2H details and stats
- Belinda BencicBencic – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Donna VekicVekic (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Madison KeysKeys (2-3) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Clara TausonTauson – (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Lulu SunSun (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-1) – H2H details and stats