Clara Tauson aces Anna Blinkova 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Nottingham on Thursday. Tauson will play Magda Linette in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes.
Clara added to her prize money $ 2,655 after winning this match. She has already won $ 6,815 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Dane will add $ 5,155 to her earnings to get in total $ 11,970 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:34
At the end of the match, Tauson scored 66 points vs. Blinkova’s 58.
Tauson
Tauson served extremely well to win 78% of the points (28/36) behind her first serve. However she won only 48% points (14/29) on her second serve. Tauson fired 10 aces and she committed 4 double faults. Clara didn’t lose the focus when converting 60% of the break points that she procured (3/5).
Blinkova
On the other side, the Russian wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Tauson and Blinkova is 3-1 for Clara.
Draw and next match H2H: Clara Tauson vs. Magda Linette – stats
Tauson will come up against Linette in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Clara Tauson and Magda Linette square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tauson (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tauson won 6-4 4-6 6-1 in the 1st round in Paris back in May 2025.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Tauson conquered in the 7th game (4-3) prior to eventually conquering the set (6-4).
Tauson converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-3 0-40) and the 11th game (6-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Anna was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th game (3-2 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 62 points. The Dane was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Blinkova (35-27). Clara surrendered 8 points on serve (21-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Blinkova conceded 14 points on serve (19-14).
Tauson had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Anna Blinkova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Tauson to win the set since the Russian found the way to break back in the 6th (2-4) game.
Clara converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 40-A) and the 5th game (4-0 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Blinkova converted 14% of her break points (1/7). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (1-4 0-40 and 15-40) and the 10th game (4-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 62 points. This set was so close that, Clara won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. Clara surrendered 15 points on serve (21-15). On the other side, Blinkova conceded 10 points on serve (16-10).
Tennis Scores in Nottingham
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Sonay KartalKartal (6-4 1-6 7-5)
- Clara TausonTauson – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-4 6-4)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Mingge XuXu (7-5 6-1)
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-4)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Cristina BucsaBucsa (6-3 6-4)
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-2 2-6 6-4)
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 4-6 6-4)
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Francesca JonesJones (6-1 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Magda LinetteLinette – Clara TausonTauson (0-1) – H2H details and stats
