TENNIS SCORES. Zheng topples Schoofs in the 1st round in Zhengzhou

Saisai Zheng gets the better of Bibiane Schoofs 7-6⁴ 6-1 in the 1^st round in Zhengzhou on Tuesday. Zheng will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Alison Riske in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Zheng had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Schoofs in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Saisai to win the set because Bibiane found the way to break back in the 6^th (2-4) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Saisai kept her focus before winning the set at the breaker at 4.

Nonetheless also Bibiane won 4 consecutive games from 1-4 to 5-4

2^nd set.

Zheng won the set after she broke Bibiane in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game. That was decisive for Saisai to win the set since she didn’t concede her serve in the rest of the set.

The Dutch had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Zheng scored 84 points vs. the Dutch’s 64 points.

Saisai won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points because she converted only 31% (4/13). On the other side, Schoofs had a tough time in converting her break points because she converted only 33% of her break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Zheng and Schoofs is 1-1.

Next Match: Saisai Zheng vs. Alison Riske – stats

Zheng will take on Riske in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 7^th time that Saisai Zheng and Alison Riske play each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Riske (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Zheng won 7-5 6-4 in the 1^st round in Hiroshima back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou

• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Ying-Ying DuanDuan (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Meiling WangWang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Zhaoxuan YangYang (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xiaodi YouYou (6-3 0-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Angelique KerberKerber (5-7 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Jia-Jing LuLu (7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-4 4-6 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Polona HercogHercog (4-1) – See H2H details
• Kiki BertensBertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Alison RiskeRiske (2-4) – See H2H details
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-4) – See H2H details