WTA125 Antalya: Anca Todoni vs Leyre Romero Gormaz final analysis
Winners to the opponent's forehand corner, "serve+1" performances and unforced errors
The first of three consecutive WTA 125 events to be held at the Megasaray Tennis Academy in Antalya (Turkey) ended with 6th-seed Anca Todoni (WTA #105) defeating Leyre Romero Gormaz (WTA #155) 6-3, 6-2 in the final to clinch her third career WTA 125 title.
The 20-year old Romanian first triumphed in Bari (Italy) last May and won again in Santa Cruz (Bolivia) in October, so all her biggest singles titles to date have come on clay courts, at WTA 125 level and over the last 10 months. As she continues to climb up the WTA rankings — cracked the Top-100 for the first time, at exactly #100, just after the draw was made and is expected to rise to #82 in the upcoming update — it will be interesting to see how Todoni will perform during the upcoming swing on the red dirt.
The first title decider in Antalya started off with 2 close games. Romero Gormaz used efficient dropshotting…
… and hit some forehand winners to grab an early 2-0 lead.
The 22-year old Spaniard was dominating longer exchanges but missing a few “serve+1s”. As a result, Todoni broke for 2-2 and again for 3-3, to recover from losing her own serve in the 5th game. Coincidentally, that 5th game was the last time in the match Todoni faced a break point, or was even taken to Deuce, as her serve and aggressive baseline game got in full-flow afterwards.
By contrast, Romero Gormaz struggled on serve for most of the match. She faced break point(s) in 6 of 8 serve games and was broken 5 times.
The Spaniard saw the opener slip away when her forehand faultered late in the set. She finished the inaugural frame with twice more forehand errors than winners (12 to 6). She also accumulated twice more unforced errors than Todoni (17 to 9).
Set 1 stats
Forehand winners: Todoni 6 / Romero Gormaz 6
Forehand Errors: Todoni 8 / Romero Gormaz 12
Winners: Todoni 11 / Romero Gormaz 10
Unforced errors: Todoni 9 / Romero Gormaz 17
After Romero Gormaz kicked off the second set with a love hold, Todoni got a stranglehold on the match with a 3-game run. By now, it was Romero Gormaz’s backhand that was misfiring. As errors piled up off that wing, she lost the ability to outrally Todoni in longer exchanges and, with it, her belief.
Symbolically, Romero Gormaz’s last backhand error of the contest interrupted a rally after 11 shots and left Todoni at match point.
Todoni didn’t waste any time and sealed her third WTA 125 title with an inside-out forehand winner.
Set 2 stats
Backhand winners: Todoni 0 / Romero Gormaz 2
Backhand Errors: Todoni 6 / Romero Gormaz 14
Winners: Todoni 6 / Romero Gormaz 5
Unforced errors: Todoni 8 / Romero Gormaz 15
Final match stats showed both finalists enjoyed the same success behind 2nd serves — 8 of 17 points won — but performed very differently behind 1st serves.
Todoni excelled with a 71% win-rate on 1st serve points while Romero Gormaz came out on top of just 50% of 1st deliveries landed.
1st serves won
Todoni: 71%, 25 of 35
Romero Gormaz: 50%, 20 of 40
2nd serves won
Todoni: 47%, 8 of 17
Romero Gormaz: 47%, 8 of 17
The Spaniard was limited to an even split after making a 1st serve in large part due to an abundance of mistakes on her next shot, known as “serve+1”. Romero Gormaz totalled 9 “serve+1” errors at the end of the match, including 7 that were unforced and 6 that followed a 1st serve.
“Serve+1” Performances
Todoni: 4 winners / 2 errors = +2
Romero Gormaz: 3 winners / 9 errors = -6
Helped by such significant gap in “serve+1” performances, Todoni created a 12-point advantage in first-strike tennis, which in turn was responsible for most of her 15-point winning margin.
Overall, a couple of interesting findings jumped out when we looked at return and rallying data.
As highlighted by the black circle in the image below, Todoni made the AD side corner — corresponding to Romero Gormaz’s lefty forehand — her preferential and almost exclusive target for winners.
Romero Gormaz couldn’t have played in a more different way as she distributed her 15 winners all over the court with remarkable balance:
5 on the Deuce side backcourt
5 on the AD side backcourt
5 on the frontcourt, off drop shots/drop volleys (marked by black box)
You may have picked up from the data above that both finalists hit the same number of winners (15) and forcing shots (9) off returns and rally shots.
Todoni was able to match her opponent’s offensive return and rallying output while making 13 fewer unforced errors (16 to 29). It was such superior ability to control unforced errors that eventually brought her the champion’s trophy.
Anca Todoni (WTA #105, seed 6) vs Leyre Romero Gormaz (WTA #155)
2025 Antalya final - Match Data
Set by Set Stats
Strategy Stats
Strokes Breakdown
Winners and Errors (returns and rally shots)
Direction of winning shots and unforced errors (only groundstrokes)
Serve and Return
1st Serves
2nd Serves
Return & rallying performance
Rally length
Points won breakdown
This final section gives a last, broader look at the match by presenting how each player won points. Points are listed according to their frequency (highest to lowest) and are named in relation to the last touch on the ball. For simplicity, groundstrokes hit from the 5th shot onwards are grouped together.
Breakdown by side (FHs or BHs)
Breakdown by error type (UFEs or FEs)
To find out more about the stats published here, please visit the following post.
While we follow the same criteria used on all major tennis events, our stats are collected through our own video analysis and are not official WTA or ITF stats.
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— Tennis Inside Numbers