
Aryna Sabalenka too good for Lucia Bronzetti 6-1 6-2 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells on Monday after playing an extraordinary match to play Sonay Kartal in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes. Her best result in this tournament was reaching the final in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs. Lucia Bronzetti BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Sabalenka’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Aryna scored 64 points vs. Lucia’s 41.
Sabalenka
The Belarussian served extremely well to win 75% of the points (21/28) behind her first serve, and she won 53% points (10/19) on her second serve. Aryna won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Bronzetti
On the other side, Bronzetti was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Sabalenka and Bronzetti is 3-0 for Aryna.
Draw and next match H2H: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Sonay Kartal – stats
Sabalenka will fight against Kartal in the 4th round.
There is no head to head record between Aryna Sabalenka and Sonay Kartal since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Aryna was too good to concede just 1 game before breaking Lucia 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Bronzetti was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-1 to 6-1.
They contested 53 points. Sabalenka conquered the set after winning 13 more points than Lucia (33-20). The Belarussian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the other side, Bronzetti conceded 17 points on serve (16-17).
Sabalenka had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Lucia Bronzetti in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, Sabalenka found the way to come back to break Lucia 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Bronzetti was dominated in the last 6 games of the set when the game count went from 0-2 to 6-2.
Aryna converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-2 30-40 and 40-A), the 5th (2-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). In addition on the other side, Lucia converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 6th game (2-3 40-A).
They played 51 points. Aryna conquered the set after winning 11 points more than the Italian (31-20). The Belarussian conceded 11 points on serve (15-11). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 16 points on serve (9-16).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-61 6-2)
- Donna VekicVekic – Emma NavarroNavarro (7-65 6-1)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-1 6-2)
- Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (6-2 6-78 6-4)
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 6-3 6-2)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 6-4)
- Sonay KartalKartal – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (7-5 6-3)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-0 6-2)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Lulu SunSun (6-4 7-5)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Clara TausonTauson (6-3 6-0)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 6-3)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-2 6-4)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (7-5 6-1)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-0 7-5)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Xinyu WangWang (6-2 6-1)
Upcoming matches
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- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Donna VekicVekic – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica PegulaPegula (2-5) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-3) – H2H details and stats