Monica Puig upsets Angelique Kerber 7-65 5-7 6-1 in the 1st round in Wuhan on Monday. Puig will square off with Alison Riske in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Puerto Rican won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (4-5) game. Monica broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.
2nd set.
Puig had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Kerber in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Angelique refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Puerto Rican in the 10th (5-5) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
The Puerto Rican was powerless in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).
3rd set.
Puig had a strong start of this set after breaking Kerber in the 1st game (1-0). Puig improved her lead after breaking Kerber in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
The German was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Puerto Rican scored 125 points vs. Angelique’s 112 points.
The Puerto Rican was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (6/12). On the other side, Kerber was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 25% of her break points (4/16). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Puig and Kerber is 3-3.
Next Match: Monica Puig vs. Alison Riske – stats
Puig will compete against Riske in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Monica Puig and Alison Riske play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Puig (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Puig won 6-4 6-1 in the qualifications in Beijing back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Alison RiskeRiske – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (4-6 6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Shuai PengPeng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-72 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (7-65 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-2) – 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
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-65 6-2) – 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
- Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Xiyu WangWang (6-4 6-2) – 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
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 7-6(5)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – See H2H details
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – 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
- Alison RiskeRiske – Monica PuigPuig (0-1) – See H2H details
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-2) – See H2H details
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (4-5) – 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