Sofia Kenin conquers Anna Blinkova 7-62 4-6 6-1 in the semifinal in Guangzhou on Friday. Kenin will play against Samantha Stosur in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Blinkova had a favorable start in this set after breaking Kenin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, the American refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Blinkova in the 7th (3-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 2.
2nd set.
Blinkova won the set after she broke Sofia 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Kenin tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (2-4) game. Yet, Blinkova kept the focus before winning the set 6-4.
Kenin was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).
3rd set.
Blinkova had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Kenin in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the American managed to stage a good comeback to break the Russian 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
The Russian was completely knocked out in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
After this contest, the head to head between Kenin and Blinkova is 1-0 for Sofia.
Next Match: Sofia Kenin vs. Samantha Stosur – stats
Kenin will take on Stosur in the final.
This will be the 3rd time that Sofia Kenin and Samantha Stosur fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Stosur (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Stosur won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Eastbourne back in June 2019.
Tennis Scores in Guangzhou
- Sofia KeninKenin – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (7-62 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Samantha StosurStosur – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (2-6 7-64 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sofia KeninKenin – Samantha StosurStosur (0-2) – See H2H details
