Lesley Kerkhove dispatches Shuyue Ma 6-2 6-4 in the qualifications in Guangzhou on Sunday. Kerkhove will square off with Andrea Petkovic in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Dutch in this set was too good for the Chinese and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Ma in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
2nd set.
The Dutch won the set after she broke Ma in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Shuyu2 tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. However, the Dutch managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-4.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Lesley scored 59 points vs. Ma’s 39 points.
Lesley served extremely well to win 84% of the points (27/32) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 41% points (9/22) on her second serve. Lesley was stunning in converting all the break points (4/4). On the other side, the Chinese was struggling in converting her break points since she converted only 33% of her break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Kerkhove and Ma is 1-0 for Lesley.
Next Match: Lesley Kerkhove vs. Andrea Petkovic – stats
Kerkhove will play Petkovic in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Lesley Kerkhove and Andrea Petkovic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Petkovic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Petkovic won 7-63 6-1 in the qualifications in St. Petersburg back in 2017.
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