Himeno Sakatsume makes light work of Miho Kuramochi 6-0 6-1 in the qualifications in Hong Kong on Sunday in what was an all-Japanese match after playing a marvellous match to come up against Sofia Kenin in the 1st round. The match lasted just 56 minutes.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Sakatsume scored 53 points vs. Miho’s 21.
Sakatsume
Himeno served extremely well to win 81% of the points (22/27) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (9/15) on her second serve. Himeno was well focused in converting 83% of the break points that she procured (5/6).
Kuramochi
On the other side, Kuramochi wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Sakatsume and Kuramochi is 1-0 for Himeno.
Draw and next match H2H: Himeno Sakatsume vs. Sofia Kenin – stats
Sakatsume will square off with Kenin in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Himeno Sakatsume and Sofia Kenin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Hong Kong
- Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume – Miho KuramochiKuramochi (6-0 6-1)
- Maddison InglisInglis – Jia-Jing LuLu (6-4 6-4)
- Viktoria MorvayovaMorvayova – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (4-6 6-3 6-4)
- Yexin MaMa – Amy ZhuZhu (7-5 6-1)
- Kristiana SidorovaSidorova – Haruka KajiKaji (6-1 6-2)
- Momoko KoboriKobori – Xiaodi YouYou (6-74 7-5 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Emiliana ArangoArango (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sofia KeninKenin – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Eudice Wong ChongWong Chong – Suzan LamensLamens (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Veronika ErjavecErjavec – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Dalma GalfiGalfi (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Xiyu WangWang – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H details and stats