TENNIS SCORES. Christina Mchale stuns Sevastova in the 1st round in Wuhan

Christina Mchale upsets Anastasija Sevastova 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Wuhan on Monday. Mchale will fight against Dayana Yastremska in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Anastasija won the set after she broke the American in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 10^th (6-4) game. Mchale tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9^th (5-4) game. Nonetheless, Anastasija stayed solid before winning the set 6-4.

2^nd set.

Mchale won the set after she broke Sevastova 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. The Latvian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4^th (2-2) game. Notwithstanding, Christina managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-3.

Anastasija couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

3^rd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Mchale conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Mchale scored 94 points vs. the Latvian’s 90 points.

Christina served pretty well to win 75% of the points (41/55) behind her first serve. However she won only 31% points (10/32) on her second serve. Christina won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 33% (5/15). On the other side, the Latvian was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 33% of her break points (3/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Mchale and Sevastova is 2-0 for Christina.

Next Match: Christina Mchale vs. Dayana Yastremska – stats

Mchale will face Yastremska in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Christina Mchale and Dayana Yastremska clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mchale (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Mchale won 2-6 6-2 7-6¹ in the 1^st round in Quebec City back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• 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
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (4-6 6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-7² 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-3 6-2) – 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
• Sloane StephensStephens – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 6-4) – 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
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 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