TENNIS SCORES. Sara Sorribes Tormo gets by Cirstea in the 1st round in Hiroshima

JAPAN WOMEN'S OPEN - HIROSHIMA. Sorribes Tormo gets by Cirstea to play Varvara Flink in the 2nd round

Prediction and head to head Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Sorana Cirstea

Sara Sorribes Tormo topples Sorana Cirstea 6-2 3-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Hiroshima on Tuesday. Sorribes Tormo will seek to keep on going in this event against Varvara Flink in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Sorribes Tormo in this set played a much better tennis than Cirstea and eventually she won 6-2. Sorana broke Sorribes Tormo 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game. However, Sorribes Tormo broke her opponent in the 4th (2-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to conquer the set (6-2).

The Romanian was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

2nd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Romanian conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

3rd set.

Sorribes Tormo had a racing start in this set after breaking Cirstea in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Spaniard to win the set as Cirstea found the way to break back in the 5th (1-4) and in the 7th (2-5) game. Sara maintained her focus to break Sorana in the 6th (5-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.

Sorribes Tormo failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 30.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 81 points vs. the Romanian’s 68 points.

The Spaniard was pretty good in converting 58% of the break points that she procured (7/12). On the other side, Cirstea had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 33% of her break points (4/12). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Sorribes Tormo and Cirstea is 1-0 for Sara.

Next Match: Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Varvara Flink – stats

Sorribes Tormo will come up against Flink in the 2nd round.

There is no head to head record between Sara Sorribes Tormo and Varvara Flink since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

The last time that they locked horns, Sorribes Tormo won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Bol back in June 2019.

Tennis Scores in Hiroshima

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