TENNIS SCORES. Determined Sofia Kenin survives Svitolina in the 3rd round in Cincinnati

Sofia Kenin survives Elina Svitolina 6-3 7-6³ in the 3^rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday after winning a huge battle. Kenin will play against Naomi Osaka in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Kenin conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

The American wasted a good opportunity to break the Ukrainian in the 4^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Kenin won the set after she broke Elina in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (5-4) game. The Ukrainian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. Notwithstanding, Kenin kept the focus before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.

Sofia failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 40.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the American scored 86 points vs. the Ukrainian’s 76 points.

The American served exceptionally well to win 75% of the points (45/60) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 37% points (15/41) on her second serve. Kenin won this match even if she had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, Elina was struggling in converting her break points since she converted only 25% of her break points (2/8). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Kenin and Svitolina is 2-1 for Sofia.

Highlights Sofia Kenin vs. Elina Svitolina Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati

Next Match: Sofia Kenin vs. Naomi Osaka – stats

Kenin will come up against Osaka in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Sofia Kenin and Naomi Osaka face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Osaka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Osaka won 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in Paris back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Karolina PliskovaKarolina – Rebecca PetersonRebecca (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana – Sloane StephensSloane (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyAshleigh – Anett KontaveitAnett (4-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsVenus – Donna VekicDonna (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariMaria – Aryna SabalenkaAryna (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninSofia – Elina SvitolinaElina (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaNaomi – Su-Wei HsiehSu-Wei (7-6³ 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Madison KeysMadison – Simona HalepSimona (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyAshleigh – Maria SakkariMaria (1-1) – See H2H details
• Karolina PliskovaKarolina – Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana (2-2) – See H2H details
• Venus WilliamsVenus – Madison KeysMadison (2-2) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninSofia – Naomi OsakaNaomi (0-1) – See H2H details