TENNIS SCORES. Mchale beats Minnen in the 1st round of the Japan Women’s Open

Christina Mchale bests Greetje Minnen 6-2 6-4 in the 1^st round in Hiroshima on Tuesday. Mchale is going to play against Veronika Kudermetova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mchale was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Minnen in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for Christina to win the set because Greetje found the way to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) game. The American maintained her focus to break Greetje in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when the American won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

The American won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 4^th (1-3) game, The American broke back in the 5^th (2-3) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Christina scored 65 points vs. Minnen’s 42 points.

The American was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10). On the other side, Minnen was sharp when converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). However, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Mchale and Minnen is 1-0 for Christina.

Next Match: Christina Mchale vs. Veronika Kudermetova – stats

Mchale will face Kudermetova in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Christina Mchale and Veronika Kudermetova since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Hiroshima

• Varvara FlinkFlink – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Valeria SavinykhSavinykh (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Nao HibinoHibino – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-7² 7-6⁵ 7-5) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Junri NamigataNamigata (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Zoe HivesHives – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Risa OzakiOzaki (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kurumi NaraNara – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig – Ayano ShimizuShimizu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Priscilla HonHon – Katarzyna KawaKawa (6-0 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Danka KovinicKovinic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Priscilla HonHon (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (2-2) – See H2H details
• Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Kurumi NaraNara (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Zoe HivesHives (0-0) – See H2H details
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Patricia Maria TigMaria Tig (2-1) – See H2H details
• Christina MchaleMchale – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details