Xiyu Wang surprises Kamilla Rakhimova 6-2 6-0 in the 1st round in Ningbo on Monday after playing a terrific match to come up against Alexandra Eala/En Shuo Liang or Ekaterina Alexandrova/Katerina Siniakova in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 31 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2023. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Highlights Xiyu Wang vs. Kamilla Rakhimova Ningbo Open – Ningbo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:31
At the end of the match, Wang scored 66 points vs. Rakhimova’s 40.
Wang
Wang served extremely well to win 81% of the points (17/21) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (9/15) on her second serve. Wang won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points as she converted only 40% (6/15) of the procured opportunities.
Rakhimova
On the other side, The Russian was remarkable in converting the only break point that she converted. Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Wang and Rakhimova is 1-0 for Xiyu.
Draw and next match H2H: Xiyu Wang vs. Alexandra Eala/En Shuo Liang or Ekaterina Alexandrova/Katerina Siniakova – stats
Wang will play either Alexandra Eala/En Shuo Liang or Ekaterina Alexandrova/Katerina Siniakova in the 2nd round. The head to head is 0-0 vs. Alexandra Eala/En Shuo Liang and 0-0 vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova/Katerina Siniakova.
Live score progression and stats
Wang was much more effective than the Russian and consequently she won 6-2. Rakhimova broke Wang 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, Xiyu broke her opponent in the 5th (3-2) game, but that didn’t stop her to conquer the set (6-2).
The Chinese failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 15.
The Russian had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-2 to 6-2.
Wang converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40). On the other side, Kamilla was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 4th game (1-3 30-40).
They played 60 points. Xiyu conquered the set after winning 14 more points than Rakhimova (37-23). The Chinese lost 8 points on serve (18-8). on the other side of the court, Rakhimova conceded 19 points on serve (15-19).
Kamilla lost her way in this set and Xiyu won the set 6-0.
Xiyu converted 37% of her break points (3/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 40-A) and the 6th game (5-0 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Wang didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 46 points. The Chinese was the one to win the set after conquering 12 more points than Rakhimova (29-17). Wang was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (8-2). on the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 21 points on serve (15-21).
Tennis Scores in Ningbo
- Xiyu WangWang – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-2 6-0)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-2 6-0)
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Anna BondarBondar (6-74 7-66 6-4)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-2 6-0)
Upcoming matches
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Sara ErraniErrani (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Magda LinetteLinette (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Yafan WangWang – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Xiaodi YouYou (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yue YuanYuan – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – (0-2) – H2H details and stats
