Johanna Konta clobbers Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-1 in the final in Nottingham on Sunday after playing a terrific match to win her 5th career title, the 2nd of this season. The match lasted just 58 minutes. This is the first time that Konta conquered this tournament. Her best result in this competition so far was reaching the final. Here you can see when her history at this event.
The Brit added $ 10,182 to her prize money after winning this final. She has earned $ 29,200 in total after winning this tournament.
Highlights Johanna Konta vs. Shuai Zhang Nottingham Open – Nottingham
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, the Brit scored 55 points vs. Shuai’s 32.
Konta
Konta served very well to win 81% of the points (21/26) behind her first serve, and she won 62% points (8/13) on her second serve. Konta was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that she procured (5/8).
Zhang
On the other side, Shuai wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Konta and Zhang is 6-1 for Johanna.
This was the 4th career title for Konta. She won the previous titles in Nottingham. (see list of the title). The Chinese remains with 2nd titles after she conquered the tournament in Guangzhou 2013 and in Guangzhou 2017. (see list of the title)
Live score progression and stats
The Brit in this set played at a much higher level than Shuai and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking Zhang in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
Certainly, a key moment was when Johanna won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.
The Brit won the set after she broke Shuai 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.
The Chinese was completely outplayed in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 0-1 to 6-1.
The Brit converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (3-1 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7th game (5-1 40-A). On the other side, the Brit didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 40 points. Konta was the winner of the set after clinching 12 points more than the Chinese (26-14). The Brit was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (12-4). In addition, on the other side, the Chinese conceded 14 points on serve (10-14).
Johanna Konta in Nottingham |
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