Paula Badosa topples Shuai Zhang 6-1 7-6(4) in the quarter in Beijing on Thursday. The match lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the qualifications in 2019. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
The Spaniard added to her prize money $ 140,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 325,000 as of now in this tournament. If she wins the next match, the Spaniard will add $ 260,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 585,000.
Highlights Paula Badosa vs. Shuai Zhang China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:23
At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 74 points vs. Zhang’s 52.
Badosa
Badosa served very well to win 78% of the points (31/40) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 44% points (12/27) on her second serve. The Spaniard blasted 10 aces and she committed 5 double faults. The Spaniard was well focused in converting 80% of the break points that she conquered (4/5).
Zhang
On the other side, Shuai was effective at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Badosa and Zhang is 1-0 for Paula.
Live score progression and stats
Badosa had a strong start of this set after breaking Shuai Zhang in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Paula improved her lead after breaking the Chinese in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
The Spaniard failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 40.
Certainly, a key moment was when the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the score from 0-0 to 4-0.
Paula converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (2-0 0-40), the 5th (4-0 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 0-40). On the other side, Zhang wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th game (0-6 40-A).
They contested 49 points. Paula was the one to win the set after conquering 17 more points than Shuai (33-16). Paula surrendered 10 points on serve (17-10). on the other side of the net, the Chinese conceded 16 points on serve (6-16).
Badosa had a strong start of this set after breaking Shuai Zhang in the 2nd game (2-0). That break was sufficient for Badosa to win the set (7-6) as no one dropped a serve anymore.
Tiebreak
Paula won 6 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 5th (3-2), 6th (4-2), 9th (5-4), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Zhang won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 7th (3-4) and 8th (4-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The Spaniard was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (2-3 15-40). On the other side, the Chinese wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 77 points. The Spaniard was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than the Chinese (41-36). The Spaniard surrendered 12 points on serve (29-12). on the other side of the court, Zhang conceded 12 points on serve (24-12).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-1 7-64)
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