Ekaterina Alexandrova overcomes Maya Joint 6-4 6-3 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati on Monday. Alexandrova will clash against Anna Kalinskaya in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. This will be her best result in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2019, 2020 and 2022. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Alexandrova added to her prize money $ 23,838 after winning this match. She has already won $ 56,678 after this win. If she wins the next match, Ekaterina will add $ 50,222 to her earnings to get in total $ 106,900 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 63 points vs. Maya’s 50.
Alexandrova
The Russian served very well to win 78% of the points (25/32) behind her first serve, and she won 67% points (14/21) on her second serve. Alexandrova was exceptional in converting all the break points (3/3).
Joint
On the other side, Joint was not so effective in converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Alexandrova and Joint is 1-0 for Ekaterina.
Draw and next match H2H: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Anna Kalinskaya – stats
Alexandrova will come up against Kalinskaya in the 4th round.
This will be the 7th time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Anna Kalinskaya square off. The head to head is 6-0 for Alexandrova (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Alexandrova won 6-4 6-72 6-1 in the 2nd round in Wuhan back in 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Alexandrova overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Maya Joint in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Ekaterina managed to stage a great comeback to break the Australian in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Ekaterina failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 15.
Maya was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-4 to 6-4.
Alexandrova was unerring in converting all her break points in the 8th (3-4 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 40-A). On the other side, Maya converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 67 points. Ekaterina was the one to win the set after conquering 9 points more than the Australian (38-29). Ekaterina lost 8 points on serve (22-8). on the other side of the court, Joint conceded 16 points on serve (21-16).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Ekaterina snatched in the 6th
game (4-2) before eventually conquering the set (6-3).Ekaterina was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (3-2 40-A). On the other side, Joint was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 7th game (2-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 46 points. Ekaterina was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than the Australian (25-21). The Russian dropped 6 points on serve (17-6). On the losing side, Joint conceded 8 points on serve (15-8).
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elise MertensMertens (4-6 6-3 7-5)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Maya JointJoint (6-4 6-3)
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-4 6-1)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (7-63 4-6 7-65)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-5 6-4)
- Madison KeysKeys – Aoi ItoIto (6-4 6-0)
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Yue YuanYuan (6-72 6-4 6-4)
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