
Alexander Zverev defeats Cameron Norrie 7-6(1) 6-4 in the 1st round in Beijing on Thursday. Zverev will square off with Juncheng Shang in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. His best result in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2017, 2019 and 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Alexander added to his prize money $ 27,910 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 59,805 after this win. If he wins the next match, the German will add $ 52,230 to his earnings to get in total $ 112,035 in total.
Highlights Alexander Zverev vs. Cameron Norrie China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Alexander scored 76 points vs. Norrie’s 59.
Zverev
Zverev served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (40/52) behind his first serve, and he won 75% points (12/16) on his second serve. The German struck 15 aces without committing any double fault. Alexander was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that he procured (1/2).
Norrie
On the other side, Cameron wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Zverev and Norrie is 9-2 for Alexander.
Draw and next match H2H: Alexander Zverev vs. Juncheng Shang – stats
Zverev will come up against Shang in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Alexander Zverev and Juncheng Shang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. the German had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-1.
Tiebreak
The German won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1) and 8th (7-1) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 6-1, 7-1
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, Norrie was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40).
They played 80 points. The German was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than the Brit (45-35). Alexander conceded 10 points on serve (32-10). On the losing side, Cameron conceded 13 points on serve (25-13).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Alexander conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
The German converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40). On the other side, Norrie wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 5th game (2-2 30-40).
They played 55 points. Alexander won 7 more points than the Brit (31-24). The German conceded 6 points on serve (21-6). On the other side, the Brit conceded 10 points on serve (18-10).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
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- Juncheng ShangShang – Sebastian BaezBaez (5-7 6-3 7-5)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 6-2)
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-64 6-2)
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- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Nuno BorgesBorges (6-3 7-62)
- Arthur GeaGea – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Tomas MachacMachac (6-3 6-2)
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-3 6-3)
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