
Clara Tauson bests Qinwen Zheng 5-7 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Bad Homburg on Wednesday. The battle lasted 2 hours and 13 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2025. Here you can see her history at this event.
Clara added to her prize money € 14,745 after winning this match. She has already won € 30,435 after this win. If she wins the next match, Clara will add € 26,960 to her earnings to get in total € 57,395 in total.
Highlights Clara Tauson vs. Qinwen Zheng Bad Homburg Open – Bad Homburg
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Dane scored 91 points vs. Zheng’s 85.
Tauson
The Dane served extremely well to win 84% of the points (46/55) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 44% points (14/32) on her second serve. The Dane blasted 12 aces and she committed 3 double faults. The Dane was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (3/6).
Zheng
On the other side, the Chinese was not so effective in converting her break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Tauson and Zheng is 2-0 for Clara.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Qinwen conquered in the 12th game (7-5) prior to eventually conquering the set (7-5).
The Chinese failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 40.
Qinwen was flawless in converting all her break points in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Dane wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 13th game (4-7 40-A).
They played 85 points. Qinwen won 5 points more than Tauson (45-40). The Chinese lost 16 points on serve (29-16). on the other side of the court, the Dane conceded 16 points on serve (24-16).
Tauson was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Qinwen Zheng in the 2nd game (2-0). Zheng extended her lead after breaking the Dane before winning the set (6-4).
Clara was unable to convert any of the 3 conquered break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 11th game (6-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Tauson didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 54 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Dane won just 2 more points than the Chinese (28-26). Tauson dropped 8 points on serve (20-8). on the other side of the net, the Chinese conceded 8 points on serve (18-8).
Tauson conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Qinwen Zheng in the 2nd game (2-0). the Dane to win the set (6-2) since there were no other breaks anymore.
Clara converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th (3-1 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, Tauson didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 37 points. Clara won 9 points more than Zheng (23-14). Clara was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). On the losing side, Qinwen conceded 7 points on serve (11-7).
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