BEIJING. Bianca Vanessa Andreescu defeats Sasnovich in the 1st round

Bianca Vanessa Andreescu bests Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2 2-6 6-1 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Monday. Andreescu will square off with Elise Mertens in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sasnovich came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Andreescu in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, Bianca Vanessa was not done to come back to break Aliaksandra 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Sasnovich had no answers in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Sasnovich had a great start in this set after breaking Andreescu in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Aliaksandra to win the set since Bianca Vanessa found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Aliaksandra maintained her cool to break the Canadian in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).

The Canadian was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

3^rd set.

Andreescu had a strong start of this set after breaking Sasnovich in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. The Canadian managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Aliaksandra in the 6^th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Andreescu and Sasnovich is 1-0 for Bianca Vanessa.

Highlights Bianca Vanessa Andreescu vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich China Open – Beijing

Next Match: Bianca Vanessa Andreescu vs. Elise Mertens – stats

Andreescu will play Mertens in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Bianca Vanessa Andreescu and Elise Mertens fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Andreescu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Andreescu won 3-6 6-2 6-3 in the quarter in New York back in September 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Madison KeysKeys – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-7⁴ 7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-0 3-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-2 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Anna-Lena Groenefeld/Demi SchuursGroenefeld/Demi Schuurs – Nadiya Kichenok/Abigail SpearsKichenok/Abigail Spears (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna PliskovaPliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – Lyudmyla Kichenok/Desirae KrawczykKichenok/Desirae Krawczyk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Anna Blinkova/Renata VoracovaBlinkova/Renata Voracova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Qiang WangWang (5-7 4-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (1-4) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-8) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Polona HercogHercog (3-2) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details