Zoe Hives shocks Anastasia Potapova 6-74 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Hiroshima on Tuesday. Hives will seek to keep on going in this event against Misaki Doi in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Potapova enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Hives in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. However, there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set because Hives succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (1-4), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Anastasia maintained her focus before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
A crucial moment of the match was when Anastasia won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
However also Hives won 4 consecutive games from 0-4 to 4-4
2nd set.
The Australian won the set after she broke Potapova 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Anastasia tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Yet, Zoe kept the focus before winning the set 6-4.
3rd set.
Potapova had a great start in this set after breaking Hives in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the Australian refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Potapova 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 8th (5-3) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Hives failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 124 points vs. Anastasia’s 111 points.
Hives didn’t lose the focus when converting 64% of the break points that she procured (9/14). On the other side, the Russian wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 47% of her break points (7/15). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Hives and Potapova is 1-1.
Next Match: Zoe Hives vs. Misaki Doi – stats
Hives will play Doi in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Zoe Hives and Misaki Doi since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Hiroshima
- Varvara FlinkFlink – Kristina KucovaKucova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Kurumi NaraNara – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-4 6-4) – 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
- 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
- Christina MchaleMchale – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 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
