Christina Mchale gets the better of Xinyun Han 6-1 4-6 6-2 in the qualifications in Wuhan on Saturday. Mchale will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Anastasija Sevastova in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Mchale started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Han in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Christina reinforced her lead after breaking Xinyun in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Xinyun lost the 2nd game (2-0) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.
2nd set.
Mchale was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Han in the 1st game (1-0). However, the Chinese succeeded in coming back to break Mchale 4 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
3rd set.
Han was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Mchale in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, the American managed to stage a good comeback to break the Chinese 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Han was outplayed in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Christina scored 103 points vs. Han’s 82 points.
The American didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (8/12). On the other side, Han was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 36% of her break points (5/14). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Mchale and Han is 1-0 for Christina.
Next Match: Christina Mchale vs. Anastasija Sevastova – stats
Mchale will come up against Sevastova in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Christina Mchale and Anastasija Sevastova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mchale (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Mchale won 6-0 5-7 7-62 in the 1st round in Nottingham back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Christina MchaleMchale – Xinyun HanHan (6-1 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Lauren DavisDavis – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kurumi NaraNara (6-1 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Bethanie Mattek-SandsMattek-Sands (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Ellen PerezPerez (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Madison KeysKeys – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (3-2) – See H2H details
- Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (4-1) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lin ZhuZhu (0-1) – See H2H details
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Donna VekicVekic (0-2) – See H2H details
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
- Venus WilliamsWilliams – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (0-1) – See H2H details
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Alison RiskeRiske (0-0) – See H2H details
- Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (2-3) – See H2H details
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (4-1) – See H2H details
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-1) – See H2H details
- Shuai PengPeng – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-2) – See H2H details
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Polona HercogHercog (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (0-0) – See H2H details
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Sloane StephensStephens (2-2) – See H2H details
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Christina MchaleMchale (0-1) – See H2H details
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-2) – See H2H details
- Samantha StosurStosur – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details