TENNIS SCORES. Jasmine Paolini topples Jakupovic in the qualifications of the Guangzhou Open

Jasmine Paolini defeats Dalila Jakupovic 4-6 6-1 6-4 in the qualifications in Guangzhou on Sunday. Paolini will face off with Tamara Zidansek in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Jakupovic started the set in the best possible way after breaking Paolini in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Dalila to win the set as Jasmine succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Jakupovic kept her cool to break Jasmine in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Paolini started the set strong after breaking Jakupovic in the 2^nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for the Italian to win the set because Dalila found the way to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. The Italian kept her cool to break Jakupovic in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).

Jakupovic was unable to find the solution in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

The Italian won the set after she broke Jakupovic in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game. The Slovenian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (5-3) game. However, Paolini maintained the focus before winning the set 6-4.

A crucial moment of the match was when Jasmine won 5 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Paolini scored 106 points vs. the Slovenian’s 93 points.

Jasmine was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that she conquered (9/15). On the other side, Jakupovic was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points because she converted only 41% of her break points (7/17). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Paolini and Jakupovic is 1-1.

Next Match: Jasmine Paolini vs. Tamara Zidansek – stats

Paolini will come up against Zidansek in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Jasmine Paolini and Tamara Zidansek since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou

• Magdalena FrechFrech – Ankita RainaRaina (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Shuyue MaMa (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• 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

Upcoming matches

• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (1-0) – See H2H details
• Katarina ZavatskaZavatska – Fiona FerroFerro (0-0) – See H2H details
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ying-Ying DuanDuan – Saisai ZhengZheng (0-1) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-1) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove (1-0) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-1) – See H2H details
• Magdalena FrechFrech – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Shuai PengPeng – Qiang WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraPera – Samantha StosurStosur (0-0) – See H2H details