TENNIS SCORES. Anna Blinkova topples Sanchez in the qualifications of the Bronx Open

Anna Blinkova tops Maria Sanchez 6-2 6-4 in the qualifications in New York on Saturday. Blinkova will play against Magda Linette in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Russian in this set was too strong for Maria and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Sanchez 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. Anna was broken in the in the 5^th (3-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to win the set (6-2).

2^nd set.

Sanchez was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Blinkova in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Anna managed to stage a great comeback to break Maria 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 8^th (4-4) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

The American was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Russian scored 63 points vs. the American’s 50 points.

The Russian was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (6/12). On the other side, Maria was not so effective in converting her break points because she converted only 38% of her break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Blinkova and Sanchez is 1-0 for Anna.

Next Match: Anna Blinkova vs. Magda Linette – stats

Blinkova will come up against Linette in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Anna Blinkova and Magda Linette since this will be the first time that they will square off 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