Lin Zhu rolls over Peangtarn Plipuech 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Nanchang on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to face off with Shuai Zhang in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Lin in this set played a much better tennis than Peangtarn and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Peangtarn in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Plipuech lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Zhu took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Plipuech in the 1st game (1-0). The Chinese managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Peangtarn in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 61 points vs. Peangtarn’s 35 points.
The Chinese served pretty well to win 75% of the points (27/36) behind her first serve, and she won 63% points (10/16) on her second serve. The Chinese was sharp when converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (4/6). On the other side, Peangtarn wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Zhu and Plipuech is 1-0 for Lin.
Next Match: Lin Zhu vs. Shuai Zhang – stats
Zhu will face Zhang in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Lin Zhu and Shuai Zhang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Zhu and Zhang (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Zhu won 7-63 4-6 6-1 in the quarter in Nanchang back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Nanchang
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ankita RainaRaina (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Samantha StosurStosur – Arina RodionovaRodionova (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Shuai PengPeng – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Yafan WangWang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Jana FettFett – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (7-63 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Peangtarn PlipuechPlipuech (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Xinyu GaoGao (5-7 6-0 7-5) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Fang Ying XunYing Xun (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Greta ArnArn (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Fangzhou LiuLiu – Anna DanilinaDanilina (6-3 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Giuliana OlmosOlmos (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Dalila JakupovicJakupovic – Sara ErraniErrani (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Monica NiculescuNiculescu (1-6 6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Lin ZhuZhu (1-1) – See H2H details
- Shuai PengPeng – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Jana FettFett (0-0) – See H2H details
- Fangzhou LiuLiu – Magda LinetteLinette (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Samantha StosurStosur – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (0-0) – See H2H details