Lanlana Tararudee breezes past Polina Iatcenko 6-0 6-2 in the quarter in Chennai on Friday after playing a marvellous match to clash against Janice Tjen in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Tararudee added to her prize money $ 5,150 after winning this match. She has already won $ 11,970 so far in this event. If she wins the next match, Tararudee will add $ 9,514 to her earnings to get in total $ 21,484.
Highlights Lanlana Tararudee vs. Polina Iatcenko Chennai Open – Chennai
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Thai scored 59 points vs. Polina’s 33.
Tararudee
Lanlana served pretty well to win 88% of the points (21/24) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 38% points (9/24) on her second serve. The Thai was pretty focused in converting 55% of the break points that she procured (6/11).
Iatcenko
On the other side, Polina was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Tararudee and Iatcenko is 1-0 for Lanlana.
Draw and next match H2H: Lanlana Tararudee vs. Janice Tjen – stats
Tararudee will face Tjen in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Lanlana Tararudee and Janice Tjen fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tjen (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Tjen won 6-1 6-3 in the quarter in W100 Landisville back in August 2025.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much story in this set because Tararudee conceded no games to the Russian before winning the set 6-0.
Lanlana failed to serve out the set when leading 6-0 to be broken at 15.
The Thai converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 3rd (3-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 6th game (5-0 0-40). On the other side, Iatcenko was unable to convert any of her 2 break points. She had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A) and the 5th game (0-4 30-40).
They contested 49 points. Tararudee was the winner of the set after clinching 19 points more than Polina (34-15). The Thai conceded 10 points on serve (20-10
). Regarding the other side of the net, Polina conceded 14 points on serve (5-14).Tararudee was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Polina Iatcenko in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. However, that wasn’t sufficient for the Thai to win the set since Polina managed to break back in the 7th (2-5) game. Lanlana maintained her cool to break the Russian in the 8th (6-2) game.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when the Thai won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to bring the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
Tararudee converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 0-40 and 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Iatcenko converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 7th game (1-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 43 points. Tararudee won 7 points more than the Russian (25-18). Lanlana surrendered 8 points on serve (10-8). on the other side of the net, Iatcenko conceded 15 points on serve (10-15).
Tennis Scores in Chennai
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 6-0)
- Janice TjenTjen – Mia PohankovaPohankova (6-3 6-1)
- Lanlana TararudeeTararudee – Polina IatcenkoIatcenko (6-0 6-2)
- Joanna GarlandGarland – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-2 7-62)
Upcoming matches
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Joanna GarlandGarland (0-0) – H2H details and stats