Danielle Rose Collins ousts Venus Williams 7-5 7-65 in the 1st round in Wuhan on Sunday. Rose Collins will face Aryna Sabalenka in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Danielle won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (2-3) game. Rose Collins broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
Venus was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).
2nd set.
Rose Collins had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Williams in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. However, there was more work to do for Rose Collins to win the set since Williams managed to break back in the 7th (2-5) and in the 9th (4-5) game. Rose Collins kept her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.
A crucial moment of the match was when Rose Collins won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Nevertheless also Williams won 5 consecutive games from 0-5 to 5-5
Statistics
At the end of the match, Rose Collins scored 89 points vs. Venus’s 82 points.
Danielle won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 36% (5/14). On the other side, Williams was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 33% of her break points (4/12). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Rose Collins and Williams is 2-0 for Danielle.
Highlights Danielle Rose Collins vs. Venus Williams Wuhan Open – Wuhan
Next Match: Danielle Rose Collins vs. Aryna Sabalenka – stats
Rose Collins will fight against Sabalenka in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Danielle Rose Collins and Aryna Sabalenka play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sabalenka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Sabalenka won 6-0 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in New York back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Venus WilliamsWilliams (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-6(5) 6-2) – See score progression
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