
Sofia Kenin rolls past Moyuka Uchijima 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Tuesday after playing a terrific match to face off with Wakana Sonobe in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes. Her best result in this competition was reaching the final in 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Sofia added to her prize money $ 4,400 after winning this match. She has already won $ 15,700 after this win. If she wins the next match, Kenin will add $ 12,995 to her earnings to get in total $ 28,695 in total.
Highlights Sofia Kenin vs. Moyuka Uchijima Toray Pan Pacific Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Kenin scored 67 points vs. the Japanese’s 44.
Kenin
Kenin was effective at converting 50% of the break points that she procured (4/8).
Uchijima
On the other side, the Japanese wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Kenin and Uchijima is 2-0 for Sofia.
Draw and next match H2H: Sofia Kenin vs. Wakana Sonobe – stats
Kenin will come up against Sonobe in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Wakana Sonobe since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Kenin enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Moyuka Uchijima in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The American extended her lead after breaking Moyuka in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).
An important stage of this set was when the American won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
The American converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (3-0 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Moyuka wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (0-2 40-A).
They contested 63 points. Sofia conquered the set after winning 9 points more than Moyuka (36-27). The American conceded 11 points on serve (22-11). On the other side, the Japanese conceded 14 points on serve (16-14).
The American won the set after she broke Uchijima in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Uchijima was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-3 to 6-3.
Kenin converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40). On the other side, Moyuka was unable to convert any of her 4 break points. She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 48 points. The American was the one to win the set after conquering 14 points more than Uchijima (31-17). Kenin lost 6 points on serve (18-6). on the other side of the net, Uchijima conceded 13 points on serve (11-13).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Sofia KeninKenin – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-1 6-3)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Alina CharaevaCharaeva (6-2 6-3)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-65 6-4)
- Wakana SonobeSonobe – Nikola BartunkovaBartunkova (6-4 6-3)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 6-1)
- Victoria MbokoMboko – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-3 6-3)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (6-2 1-0 ret.)
- Eva LysLys – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-2 6-1)
- Maya JointJoint – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (1-6 7-65 6-2)
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Xinyu WangWang (4-6 6-3 6-4)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Suzan LamensLamens (6-3 6-1)
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Cristina BucsaBucsa (3-6 7-5 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elena RybakinaRybakina (2-1) – H2H details and stats





