TENNIS SCORES. Han victorious over Naito in the qualifications in Osaka

Xinyun Han overcomes Yuki Naito 6-3 4-6 6-1 in the qualifications in Osaka on Sunday. Han will play against Camila Giorgi in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Xinyun won the set after she broke Yuki in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. That break resulted decisive for Xinyun to conquer the set because she didn’t drop her serve during the rest of the set.

Naito lost the 7^th game (4-3) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.

The Japanese was unable to find the solution in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Naito didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Han in the 1^st game (1-0). However, there was more work to do for Naito to win the set as the Chinese succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Naito kept her focus to break Xinyun in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).

3^rd set.

Han came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Naito in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. However, there was more work to do for the Chinese to win the set because Yuki succeeded in breaking back in the 5^th (1-4) game. Xinyun maintained her focus to break Naito in the 6^th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Xinyun won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Xinyun scored 96 points vs. Yuki’s 82 points.

Han didn’t lose the focus when converting 80% of the break points that she procured (8/10). On the other side, Naito was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered points (5/8). However, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Han and Naito is 1-0 for Xinyun.

Next Match: Xinyun Han vs. Camila Giorgi – stats

Han will compete against Giorgi in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Xinyun Han and Camila Giorgi since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Varvara FlinkFlink – Katarzyna KawaKawa (6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Whitney OsuigweOsuigwe (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Kurumi NaraNara (6-7³ 7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (3-6 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Xinyun HanHan – Yuki NaitoNaito (6-3 4-6 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Alize CornetCornet – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Nao HibinoHibino – Varvara FlinkFlink (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Xinyun HanHan – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (0-0) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-1) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-2) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-0) – See H2H details
• Monica PuigPuig – Zarina DiyasDiyas (2-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Nicole GibbsGibbs (0-0) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-2) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Misaki DoiDoi (1-1) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – See H2H details