WUHAN. Sofia Kenin prevails over Pavlyuchenkova in the 1st round

Sofia Kenin victorious over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 7-6⁵ in the 1^st round in Wuhan on Monday. Kenin will have to play Elise Mertens in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Pavlyuchenkova started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Kenin in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the American was not done to come back to break Anastasia 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Anastasia couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Kenin won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 7^th (3-4) game, Sofia broke back in the 8^th (4-4) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Sofia scored 83 points vs. Anastasia’s 68 points.

The American was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8). On the other side, Anastasia had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 33% of her break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Kenin and Pavlyuchenkova is 1-0 for Sofia.

Next Match: Sofia Kenin vs. Elise Mertens – stats

Kenin will take on Mertens in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Sofia Kenin and Elise Mertens play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Kenin won 1-6 6-1 6-3 in the quarter in Mallorca back in June 2019.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Christina MchaleMchale – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (4-6 6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-7² 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Donna VekicVekic (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Shuai PengPeng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6⁵ 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 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
• Sloane StephensStephens – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Venus WilliamsWilliams (7-5 7-6⁵) – 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

Upcoming matches

• 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
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraPera – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – 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