Kristie Ahn powers past Anna Kalinskaya 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday after playing a solid match to square off with Jelena Ostapenko in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Ahn had a racing start in this set after breaking Kalinskaya in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, that was not enough for Ahn to win the set as Anna managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (2-4) game. Ahn maintained her focus to break Anna in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
2nd set.
The American won the set after she broke Kalinskaya 3 times in the 5th (3-2), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Kalinskaya tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Nevertheless, Kristie didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-3.
Ahn failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
A crucial moment of the match was when Kristie won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.
Statistics
After this contest, the head to head between Ahn and Kalinskaya is 1-0 for Kristie.
Highlights Kristie Ahn vs. Anna Kalinskaya U.S. Open – New York
Next Match: Kristie Ahn vs. Jelena Ostapenko – stats
Ahn will compete against Ostapenko in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Kristie Ahn and Jelena Ostapenko fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ahn (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Ahn won 2-6 7-65 7-5 in the 1st round in Bogota back in April 2019.
Tennis Scores at the US Open
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- Julia GoergesGoerges – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Simona HalepHalep (2-6 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (7-64 6-0) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Kiki BertensBertens – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Kristie AhnAhn – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Alize CornetCornet (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Shuai PengPeng (6-75 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 4-6 7-62) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-73 6-3) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-65 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Caty McNallyMcNally (5-7 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Lauren DavisDavis (6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – See H2H details
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- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – See H2H details
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kristie AhnAhn – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-0) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sofia KeninKenin – Madison KeysKeys (1-1) – See H2H details
- Johanna KontaKonta – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-1) – See H2H details
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – See H2H details
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- Fiona FerroFerro – Qiang WangWang (1-3) – See H2H details
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Ashleigh BartyBarty (1-2) – See H2H details