Elena Rybakina beats Xin Yu Wang 7-6(4) 6-2 in the 2nd round in Nanchang on Thursday. Rybakina will square off with Viktorija Golubic in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Rybakina conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Yu in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, there was more to do for Elena to win the set because Yu found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The Kazakhstani kept her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Elena failed to serve out the set when leading 5-5 to be broken at 40.
2nd set.
Rybakina conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Yu in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Rybakina managed to strengthen her lead after breaking the Chinese in the 3rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when the Kazakhstani won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
After this encounter, the head to head between Rybakina and Yu is 1-0 for Elena.
Next Match: Elena Rybakina vs. Viktorija Golubic – stats
Rybakina will square off with Golubic in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Elena Rybakina and Viktorija Golubic since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Nanchang
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Fangzhou LiuLiu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena (1-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Jana FettFett (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-0 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Samantha StosurStosur (6-4 6-3) – 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
- Samantha StosurStosur – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – See H2H details