TENNIS SCORES. Giorgi downs Han in the 1st round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Camila Giorgi downs Xinyun Han 7-6⁶ 6-1 in the 1^st round in Osaka on Monday. Giorgi is going to play against Sloane Stephens in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Han was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Giorgi in the 1^st game (1-0). However, the Italian managed to stage a good comeback to break Han in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 6.

2^nd set.

Giorgi had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Han in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Camila to win the set since the Chinese managed to break back in the 6^th (1-5) game. Camila kept her cool to break Han in the 7^th (6-1) game.

The Italian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 15.

A crucial moment of the match was when Camila won 5 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Giorgi scored 74 points vs. Xinyun’s 66 points.

Giorgi was pretty effective in converting 60% of the break points that she procured (6/10). On the other side, the Chinese was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 38% of her break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Giorgi and Han is 1-0 for Camila.

Next Match: Camila Giorgi vs. Sloane Stephens – stats

Giorgi will compete against Stephens in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 5^th time that Camila Giorgi and Sloane Stephens square off. The head to head is 2-2 for Giorgi and Stephens (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Stephens won 4-6 6-1 8-6 in the 3^rd round in Paris back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Alize CornetCornet (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Xinyun HanHan (7-6⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Monica PuigPuig (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

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• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sloane StephensStephens – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (2-2) – See H2H details
• Nicole GibbsGibbs – Angelique KerberKerber (0-0) – See H2H details
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