TENNIS SCORES NEW YORK. Superb Sasnovich soars past Hercog in the 1st round in New York

Aliaksandra Sasnovich outpaces Polona Hercog 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in New York on Monday after playing a solid match to face off with Magda Linette in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Hercog started the set strong after breaking Sasnovich in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Aliaksandra found the way to come back to break the Slovenian 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Sasnovich was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Hercog in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. The Belarussian managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Polona in the 3^rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when Sasnovich won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Aliaksandra scored 68 points vs. the Slovenian’s 47 points.

Sasnovich was pretty focused in converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, Hercog was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Sasnovich and Hercog is 2-1 for Aliaksandra.

Next Match: Aliaksandra Sasnovich vs. Magda Linette – stats

Sasnovich will compete against Linette in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Magda Linette face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Sasnovich (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Sasnovich won 5-7 7-6² 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Indian Wells back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in New York

• Magda LinetteMagda – Kaia KanepiKaia (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuLin – Yulia PutintsevaYulia (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Alison Van UytvanckAlison (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFiona – Viktorija GolubicViktorija (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Shuai ZhangShuai (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra – Polona HercogPolona (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Laura SiegemundLaura (3-6 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnKristie – Jil TeichmannJil (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Anna BlinkovaAnna – Coco VandewegheCoco (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Alize CornetAlize – Kateryna KozlovaKateryna (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Veronika KudermetovaVeronika (6-0 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Qiang WangQiang – Fiona FerroFiona (2-1) – See H2H details
• Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Camila GiorgiCamila (2-3) – See H2H details
• Alize CornetAlize – Lin ZhuLin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Kristie AhnKristie (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteMagda – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (0-2) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Barbora StrycovaBarbora (0-1) – See H2H details