TENNIS SCORES. Katarina Zavatska prevails over Wang in the qualifications of the Guangzhou Open

Katarina Zavatska wins against Xiyu Wang 6-7³ 6-1 6-4 in the qualifications in Guangzhou on Sunday. Zavatska will face Fiona Ferro in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Wang got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Zavatska in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, there was more work to do for Xiyu to win the set as the Ukrainian found the way to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 9^th (4-5) game. Wang maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 3.

2^nd set.

Wang started the set in the best possible way after breaking Zavatska in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Zavatska managed to stage a great comeback to break the Chinese 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

Xiyu was completely knocked out in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Zavatska got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Wang in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more to do for the Ukrainian to win the set as Wang managed to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. The Ukrainian maintained her focus to break Xiyu in the 7^th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).

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

Statistics

At the end of the match, Zavatska scored 115 points vs. Xiyu’s 104 points.

Katarina won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 33% (7/21). On the other side, the Chinese didn’t lose the focus when converting 57% of the break points that she procured points (4/7). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Zavatska and Wang is 1-0 for Katarina.

Next Match: Katarina Zavatska vs. Fiona Ferro – stats

Zavatska will square off with Ferro in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Katarina Zavatska and Fiona Ferro since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou

• Magdalena FrechFrech – Ankita RainaRaina (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
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• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (4-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Jia-Jing LuLu (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Xiyu WangWang (6-7³ 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Fang Ying XunYing Xun – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-2 4-6 7-6¹) – See score progression

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