Lauren Davis brushes past Anastasia Potapova 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in Beijing on Saturday after playing a superlative match to come up against Caroline Wozniacki in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Davis had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Potapova in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, that was not enough for the American to win the set as Anastasia succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) and in the 6th (3-3) game. The American kept her cool to break Anastasia in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
2nd set.
The American won the set after she broke the Russian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game. That break defined the set and it was sufficient for Lauren to conquer the set since she didn’t drop her serve in the rest of the set.
Anastasia was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Davis scored 59 points vs. Anastasia’s 37 points.
The American won this match even if she was struggling in converting her break points as she converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, Anastasia was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Davis and Potapova is 1-0 for Lauren.
Next Match: Lauren Davis vs. Caroline Wozniacki – stats
Davis will face Wozniacki in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Lauren Davis and Caroline Wozniacki clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Wozniacki (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Wozniacki won 7-5 6-1 in the quarter in Doha back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Lauren DavisDavis – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Yue YuanYuan (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Heather WatsonWatson (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Misaki DoiDoi (6-1 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (7-5 7-67) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteLinette – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Venus WilliamsWilliams (0-4) – See H2H details
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – See H2H details
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-1) – See H2H details
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
- Qiang WangWang – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (1-0) – See H2H details
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (0-1) – See H2H details
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
- Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (2-2) – See H2H details
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-3) – See H2H details