Daria Kasatkina dished out a double bagel 6-0 6-0 to Polina Kudermetova in simply 42 minutes on the WTA 1000 in Doha – one of many quickest WTA matches ever!
One month after dropping to the identical opponent in Brisbane, Kasatkina bought her revenge with a devasting show to report the second 6-0 6-0 win of her profession after beating Brit Lily Miyazaki by the identical scoreline at Wimbledon final summer time.
Kasatkina turned the primary participant to win a essential draw match on the Qatar Open 6-0 6-0 since Donna Vekic in 2016.
“I remember exactly what happened a month ago,” stated Kasatkina, who received the opening set in 19 minutes.
“I was trying to be really focused because as soon as you lose your focus the match can change completely in the blink of an eye. Plus the conditions are really tricky here, it’s really windy, so it’s tough but this is what we have to deal with.”
Second seed Iga Swiatek cruised into the final 16 with a 6-3 6-2 victory in opposition to Maria Sakkari.
“From what I remember it’s not like I’ve been playing flawlessly, so it’s not like these tournaments were perfect, but at some point always I found some solutions,” stated the Pole. “I believe the situations listed here are fairly tough, and I used to be affected person sufficient to simply maintain specializing in my sport.
“Every year it’s different, every year there is a different story, so it’s hard to compare and hard to find one thing that worked exactly.”
Swiatek is trying to turn into solely the second girl this century to win the identical event 4 consecutive instances, after Caroline Wozniacki in New Haven, from 2008-2011.
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