TENNIS SCORES. Putintseva defeats Sabalenka in the 2nd round in New York

U.S. OPEN - NEW YORK. Putintseva gets by Sabalenka to come up against Donna Vekic in the 3rd round

Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Aryna Sabalenka

Yulia Putintseva victorious over Aryna Sabalenka 6-3 7-63 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday. Putintseva will play Donna Vekic in the 3rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Putintseva clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Putintseva broke back 3 times in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game before winning the set 6-3.

Yulia lost a big opportunity to break the Belarussian in the 1st game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Aryna lost the 7th game (4-3) when she was 40-0 up.

The Belarussian was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

2nd set.

Putintseva won the set after she broke Sabalenka in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (5-5) game. The Belarussian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (3-4) game. However, the Kazakhstani kept the focus before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 3.

Nonetheless also Sabalenka won 4 consecutive games from 1-3 to 5-3

Statistics

After this match, the head to head between Putintseva and Sabalenka is 1-0 for Yulia.

Highlights Yulia Putintseva vs. Aryna Sabalenka U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Yulia Putintseva vs. Donna Vekic – stats

Putintseva will square off with Vekic in the 3rd round.

This will be the 4th time that Yulia Putintseva and Donna Vekic square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Vekic won 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Eastbourne back in 2018.

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