Ajla Tomljanovic bests Saisai Zheng 6-1 6-74 6-4 in the quarter in Zhengzhou on Friday. Tomljanovic is going to play against Karolina Pliskova in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Ajla was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking Saisai 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Saisai had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
2nd set.
Tomljanovic had a favorable start in this set after breaking Zheng in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Saisai found the way to come back to break Ajla 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Zheng failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.
A crucial moment of the match was when Saisai won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 1-3 to 5-3.
3rd set.
The Croatian won the set after recovering 3 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Tomljanovic broke back 4 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
The Croatian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 15.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Ajla scored 102 points vs. the Chinese’s 88 points.
Ajla was effective when converting 69% of the break points that she conquered (9/13). On the other side, the Chinese was struggling in converting her break points as she converted only 46% of her break points (6/13). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tomljanovic and Zheng is 2-1 for Ajla.
Next Match: Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Karolina Pliskova – stats
Tomljanovic will face Pliskova in the semifinal.
This will be the 4th time that Ajla Tomljanovic and Karolina Pliskova play each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Pliskova won 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Rome back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-1 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (7-5 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Sofia KeninKenin (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (3-0) – See H2H details
