Petra Martic demolishes Kristina Mladenovic 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Wuhan on Monday after playing a solid match to square off with Rebecca Peterson in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Martic started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Mladenovic in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Petra to win the set as Mladenovic managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Martic maintained her cool to break Kristina in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Kristina had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Martic overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Mladenovic in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Petra managed to boost her lead after breaking the French Player in the 3rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when Petra won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 59 points vs. Kristina’s 39 points.
Martic didn’t lose the concentration in converting 56% of the break points that she conquered (5/9). On the other side, Mladenovic was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points because she converted only 33% of her break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Martic and Mladenovic is 5-1 for Petra.
Next Match: Petra Martic vs. Rebecca Peterson – stats
Martic will play Peterson in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Petra Martic and Rebecca Peterson since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (4-6 6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-72 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lin ZhuZhu (7-5 2-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Venus WilliamsWilliams (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Xiyu WangWang (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6(5) 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – See H2H details
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – See H2H details
- Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (2-3) – See H2H details
- Shuai PengPeng – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-2) – See H2H details
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – See H2H details
- Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (5-1) – See H2H details
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-0) – See H2H details
- Bernarda PeraPera – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – See H2H details
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-2) – See H2H details
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – See H2H details
- Yafan WangWang – Sloane StephensStephens (0-1) – See H2H details
- Christina MchaleMchale – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-0) – See H2H details
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – See H2H details