Shuai Peng upsets Kristyna Pliskova 6-3 0-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in Nanchang on Thursday. Peng will have to play Lin Zhu in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Peng didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Pliskova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Shuai to win the set since the Czech managed to break back in the 7th (3-4) game. The Chinese kept her cool to break Kristyna in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
This was a one way set after Kristyna conceded no games to the Chinese before winning the set 6-0.
3rd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Chinese conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
Shuai won this encounter even if she conquered less points than the Czech (76 vs. 81).
The Chinese won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, the Czech didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (4/8). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Peng and Pliskova is 2-1 for Shuai.
Next Match: Shuai Peng vs. Lin Zhu – stats
Peng will play Zhu in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Shuai Peng and Lin Zhu face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Peng (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Peng won 7-62 6-0 in the quarter in Nanchang back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Nanchang
- Shuai PengPeng – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-3 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-0 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Samantha StosurStosur (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Jana FettFett (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Fangzhou LiuLiu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena (1-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Lin ZhuZhu – Shuai PengPeng (0-1) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – See H2H details
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (0-0) – See H2H details