Osaka 2019: Tuesday’s Order of Play and Match Points

CENTER COURT
Play starts at 11am

Madison KEYS (USA) [5] v Daria KASATKINA (RUS)

Not before 12:30pm
Garbiñe MUGURUZA (ESP) v HSIEH Su-wei (TPE)

Donna VEKIC (CRO) [7] v Caroline GARCIA (FRA)

Not before 5pm
Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) v [WC] Misaki DOI (JPN)

COURT 1
Play starts at 11am

Eri HOZUMI (JPN) / Makoto NINOMIYA (JPN) v Lyudmyla KICHENOK (UKR) / Alison RISKE (USA)

Not before 12:30pm
[WC] Nao HIBINO (JPN) v [Q] Varvara FLINK (RUS)

Not before 2pm
Yulia PUTINTSEVA (KAZ) v Petra MARTIC (CRO) [8]

Shuko AOYAMA (JPN) / Ena SHIBAHARA (JPN) v Darija JURAK (CRO) / Katarina SREBOTNIK (SLO) [4]

COURT 2
Play starts at 1pm

Monique ADAMZAK (AUS) / HAN Xinyun (CHN) v CHAN Hao-Ching (TPE) / Latisha CHAN (TPE) [2]

MATCH POINTS 

Madison Keys has a 5-0 career head-to-head record against Daria Kasatkina, most recently defeating the Russian, 6-4, 6-1 in Cincinnati. All of their meetings have been on hard courts.

Keys has lost only one set of the 11 she has played against the WTA World No.40, keeping her rival to three games or fewer in seven of these.

The American is seeking to be the first player from her country to win the title since Lindsay Davenport in 2004.

Kasatkina has a 2-2 record against players in the Top 20 during 2019.

Hsieh Su-wei has won her only previous match against Garbiñe Muguruza. That was a 7-6(1), 6-4 success at the 2018 Australian Open.

Caroline Garcia has won four of her last five meetings with Donna Vekic, including a thriller in the final of Nottingham earlier this year. On the grass, the Frenchwoman claimed a 2-6, 7-6(4), 7-6(4) success.

The odds are that the match will be a close one; of their seven career meetings, including ITF and 125k events, six have gone the distance. Garcia holds a 4-3 overall record.

This will be the first time that Kristina Mladenovic and Misaki Doi have met in a main draw. They have played twice before in qualifying, sharing one match each, but they have never faced off on hard courts.

Doi is coming off her first WTA Tour final, having lost 6-3, 6-2 to fellow wildcard Nao Hibino in Hiroshima. She had played three 125K finals previously.

Hibino’s title was her second on Tour and her first since Tashkent in 2015.

Yulia Putintseva has never beaten a Croatian player in four previous career meetings. Petra Martic, who was runner-up to Karolina Pliskova in Zhengzhou last week, has a 3-0 record against Kazaks.