TENNIS SCORES GUANGZHOU. Ferocious Lu breezes past Schoofs in the qualifications in Guangzhou

Jia-Jing Lu breezes past Bibiane Schoofs 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in Guangzhou on Saturday after playing a superlative match to square off with Tereza Martincova in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Lu won the set after she broke Bibiane in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game. Bibiane tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (5-2) game. Yet, the Chinese maintained the focus before winning the set 6-3.

Lu failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 15.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Chinese won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

The Chinese in this set was much more effective than Schoofs and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking Schoofs in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Schoofs was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Jia-Jing scored 71 points vs. the Dutch’s 54 points.

Jia-Jing won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, Schoofs was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 14% of her break points (1/7). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Lu and Schoofs is 1-0 for Jia-Jing.

Next Match: Jia-Jing Lu vs. Tereza Martincova – stats

Lu will take on Martincova in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Jia-Jing Lu and Tereza Martincova since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou

• Jia-Jing LuLu – Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Sara ErraniErrani (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Fang Ying XunYing Xun – Kaylah McpheeMcphee (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Dalila JakupovicJakupovic – Natalija KosticKostic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Xiyu WangWang – Sijia WeiWei (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Arina RodionovaRodionova – Shilin XuXu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Ankita RainaRaina – Sachia VickeryVickery (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Lizette CabreraCabrera (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Shuyue MaMa – Georgina Garcia-PerezGarcia-Perez (4-6 6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Varvara LepchenkoLepchenko (6-2 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – En Shuo LiangShuo Liang (6-4 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Jaimee FourlisFourlis (6-4 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Fang Ying XunYing Xun – Arina RodionovaRodionova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Ankita RainaRaina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (0-1) – See H2H details
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Jia-Jing LuLu (0-0) – See H2H details
• Shuyue MaMa – Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details