Madison Keys vanquishes Darya Kasatkina 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday after playing a superlative match to come up against Simona Halep in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Keys won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Keys broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
Keys had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Kasatkina in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. The American reinforced her lead after breaking Kasatkina in the 6th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the American scored 71 points vs. Darya’s 51 points.
The American served extremely well to win 86% of the points (24/28) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 48% points (13/27) on her second serve. The American won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 27% (4/15). On the other side, Darya had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 33% of her break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Keys and Kasatkina is 5-0 for Madison.
Next Match: Madison Keys vs. Simona Halep – H2H and stats
Keys will compete against Halep in the 3rd round.
This will be the 7th time that Madison Keys and Simona Halep square off. The head to head is 5-1 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Halep won w/o in the 3rd round in Rome back in 2018.
