Leylah Annie Fernandez vanquishes Antonia Ruzic 6-4 6-0 in the 2nd round in Rome on Friday after playing a fantastic match to face off with Marta Kostyuk in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this event. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Canadian added to her prize money € 17,098 after conquering this match. She has already won € 38,313 after this win. If she wins the next match, Leylah will add € 27,797 to her earnings to get in total € 66,110 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:23
At the end of the match, the Canadian scored 68 points vs. Ruzic’s 47.
Fernandez
The Canadian was well focused in converting 63% of the break points that she procured (5/8).
Ruzic
On the other side, Ruzic was struggling when converting her break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Fernandez and Ruzic is 1-0 for Leylah .
Draw and next match H2H: Leylah Annie Fernandez vs. Marta Kostyuk – stats
Fernandez will play Kostyuk in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Leylah Annie Fernandez and Marta Kostyuk since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Fernandez overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Antonia Ruzic in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Leylah to win the set as Ruzic managed to break back in the 6th (3-3) game. The Canadian kept her focus to break Antonia in the 7th (4-3) game before conquering the set (6-4).
Fernandez converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 2nd (2-0 40-A), the 7th (3-3 15-40) and the 11th game (6-3 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Antonia converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 6th game (2-3 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 86 points. Fernandez conquered the set after winning 8 more points than the Croatian (47-39). The Canadian conceded 22 points on serve (28-22). on the other side of the court, Ruzic conceded 19 points on serve (17-19).
The Croatian didn’t manage to offer a meaningful resistance and Fernandez won the set 6-0.
The Canadian converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 30-40) and the 5th game (4-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Leylah didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 31 points. Fernandez conquered the set after winning 13 more points than Antonia (22-9). Fernandez was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (12-3). On the losing side, Ruzic conceded 10 points on serve (6-10).
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Sonay KartalKartal (6-4 6-2)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-6 6-4 6-1)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-4 6-2)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Eva LysLys (7-63 6-2)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-0)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-4 6-0)
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-2 6-2)
- Clara TausonTauson – Katie VolynetsVolynets (7-5 4-1 ret.)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Emiliana ArangoArango (6-2 6-4)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-1 6-4)
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-65 7-5)
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 3-6 6-2)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-2 6-2)
- Cori GauffGauff – Victoria MbokoMboko (3-6 6-2 6-1)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-1 6-3)
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-5 6-4)
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 2-6 6-4)
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Petra KvitovaKvitova (w/o)
- Madison KeysKeys – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (7-64 6-1)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-62 7-5)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-1 6-0)
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-2 6-3)
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (1-6 6-4 6-3)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-4 7-62)
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-2 6-2)
- Elise MertensMertens – Suzan LamensLamens (3-6 6-2 6-3)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-2)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Lulu SunSun (6-4 6-3)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-0 6-0)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-3 6-3)
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-0 6-3)
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (2-6 7-5 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Sofia KeninKenin (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (3-0) – H2H details and stats
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Qinwen ZhengZheng (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Magda LinetteLinette (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Jessica PegulaPegula (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Madison KeysKeys – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-7) – H2H details and stats
