
Donna Vekic ousts Emma Navarro 7-6(5) 6-1 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells on Monday. Vekic will play against Madison Keys in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. This will be her most significant 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.
Highlights Donna Vekic vs. Emma Navarro BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 70 points vs. the American’s 60.
Vekic
The Croatian was sharp when converting 78% of the break points that she conquered (7/9).
Navarro
On the other side, Navarro was pretty good at converting 63% of the break points that she procured points (5/8). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Vekic and Navarro is 2-0 for Donna.
Draw and next match H2H: Donna Vekic vs. Madison Keys – stats
Vekic will come up against Keys in the 4th round.
This will be the 4th time that Donna Vekic and Madison Keys square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Keys (see full H2H stats), but Vekic has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Vekic won 3-6 7-65 7-65 in the 1st round in Toronto back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
The Croatian won the set after she broke Emma 4 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (4-3), in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Emma tried to stage a comeback breaking 4 times in the 6th (3-3), in the 8th (4-4), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (6-6) game. Yet, Vekic kept the focus to conquer the set 7-6.
The Croatian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.
Donna converted 66% of her break points (4/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 7th (3-3 15-40), the 9th (4-4 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, the American converted 66% of her break points (4/6). She had her opportunities in the 6th (2-3 0-40), the 8th (3-4 0-40), the 10th (4-5 0-40), the 12th (5-6 30-40) and the 14th game (5-7 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 86 points. It’s worth to point out that, Vekic won this set even if she scored less points 2 than the American (42-44). Vekic surrendered 21 points on serve (15-21). On the losing side, Navarro conceded 27 points on serve (23-27).
Vekic started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Emma Navarro in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, there was more to do for Donna to win the set since Navarro found the way to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. The Croatian maintained her cool to break Navarro in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Donna was unerring in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (3-0 15-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40). On the other side, Emma converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 5th game (0-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 44 points. The Croatian was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than Navarro (27-17). The Croatian dropped 13 points on serve (15-13). Regarding the other side of the net, Emma conceded 12 points on serve (4-12).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-1 6-2)
- Belinda BencicBencic – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 6-4)
- Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (6-2 6-78 6-4)
- Sonay KartalKartal – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (7-5 6-3)
- Donna VekicVekic – Emma NavarroNavarro (7-65 6-1)
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 6-3 6-2)
- Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-61 6-2)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-0 6-2)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Lulu SunSun (6-4 7-5)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 6-3)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Clara TausonTauson (6-3 6-0)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (7-5 6-1)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Xinyu WangWang (6-2 6-1)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-2 6-4)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-0 7-5)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-4 3-6 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- 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