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

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

Score, report, and key facts

1^st 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 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. However, Sorribes Tormo broke her opponent in the 4^th (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).

2^nd set.

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

3^rd set.

Sorribes Tormo had a racing start in this set after breaking Cirstea in the 2^nd 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 5^th (1-4) and in the 7^th (2-5) game. Sara maintained her focus to break Sorana in the 6^th (5-1) and in the 8^th (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 3^rd 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 2^nd 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 2^nd round in Bol back in June 2019.

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