WUHAN. Alison Riske tops Kozlova in the 1st round of the Wuhan Open

Alison Riske aces Kateryna Kozlova 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Wuhan on Monday. Riske will square off with Monica Puig in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kozlova started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Riske in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Kozlova to win the set as Riske found the way to break back in the 6^th (2-4) game.

2^nd set.

Riske conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Kozlova in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Alison to win the set as Kozlova managed to break back in the 7^th (2-5) game.

Riske failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 15.

3^rd set.

Kozlova was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Riske in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, Riske refused to bow to come back to break Kateryna 3 times in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 5^th (3-2) gamein the 9^th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

A crucial moment of the match was when the American won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-2 to 4-2.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Alison scored 96 points vs. Kozlova’s 91 points.

Alison didn’t lose the concentration in converting 60% of the break points that she conquered (6/10). On the other side, Kozlova was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 31% of her break points (4/13). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Riske and Kozlova is 1-0 for Alison.

Next Match: Alison Riske vs. Monica Puig – stats

Riske will come up against Puig in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Alison Riske and Monica Puig face off. 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
• Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6⁵ 5-7 6-1) – 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lin ZhuZhu (7-5 2-6 6-0) – 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