Nadiya Kichenok stuns Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-4 1-6 6-4 in the qualifications in New York on Saturday. Kichenok will face off with Kaia Kanepi in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kichenok conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Vikhlyantseva in the 1st game (1-0). That break defined the set and it was sufficient for Nadiya to win the set (6-4) since there were no other breaks anymore.
Kichenok missed the chance to break Vikhlyantseva in the 5th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
Vikhlyantseva was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Kichenok in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Vikhlyantseva managed to boost her lead after breaking the Ukrainian in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when Natalia won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
3rd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Nadiya conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Statistics
Kichenok won this contest even if she won the same amount of points of Natalia (80 vs. 80).
Kichenok served exceptionally well to win 79% of the points (34/43) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 48% points (14/29) on her second serve. Kichenok won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points because she converted only 22% (2/9). On the other side, the Russian was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Kichenok and Vikhlyantseva is 1-0 for Nadiya.
Next Match: Nadiya Kichenok vs. Kaia Kanepi – stats
Kichenok will take on Kanepi in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Nadiya Kichenok and Kaia Kanepi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Lin ZhuLin – Pauline ParmentierPauline (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Jil TeichmannJil – Belinda WoolcockBelinda (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nadiya KichenokNadiya – Natalia VikhlyantsevaNatalia (6-4 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFiona – Jana FettJana (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Francesca Di LorenzoFrancesca – Whitney OsuigweWhitney (6-4 3-6 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicViktorija – Astra SharmaAstra (2-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaAnna – Maria SanchezMaria (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Elizabeth MandlikElizabeth – Ying-Ying DuanYing-Ying (6-3 0-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Zhaoxuan YangZhaoxuan (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Laura SiegemundLaura – Claire LiuClaire (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteMagda – Sophie ChangSophie (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Kaia KanepiKaia – Mayo HibiMayo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jil TeichmannJil – Laura SiegemundLaura (0-0) – See H2H details
- Fiona FerroFiona – Elizabeth MandlikElizabeth (0-0) – See H2H details
- Viktorija GolubicViktorija – Lin ZhuLin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Francesca Di LorenzoFrancesca (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kaia KanepiKaia – Nadiya KichenokNadiya (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteMagda – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
- Coco VandewegheCoco – Ajla TomljanovicAjla (1-0) – See H2H details
- Shuai ZhangShuai – Andrea PetkovicAndrea (0-2) – See H2H details
- Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (1-1) – See H2H details
- Kateryna KozlovaKateryna – Alize CornetAlize (0-1) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (0-0) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogPolona – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (1-1) – See H2H details
- Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (1-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaVeronika – Bernarda PeraBernarda (2-1) – See H2H details
