WUHAN. Veronika Kudermetova downs Alexandrova in the 1st round

Veronika Kudermetova tops Ekaterina Alexandrova 5-7 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Wuhan on Monday. Kudermetova is going to play against Belinda Bencic in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Alexandrova was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Kudermetova in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Alexandrova to win the set because Kudermetova succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 4^th (3-1) game. Ekaterina kept her cool to break Kudermetova in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before managing to win the set (7-5).

Veronika was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).

Nonetheless also Kudermetova won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1

2^nd set.

Alexandrova was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Kudermetova in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Kudermetova succeeded in coming back to break Alexandrova in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Ekaterina couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

3^rd set.

Kudermetova was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Alexandrova in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Veronika managed to boost her lead after breaking Alexandrova in the 3^rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).

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

Statistics

At the end of the match, Veronika scored 95 points vs. Ekaterina’s 79 points.

Veronika served pretty well to win 80% of the points (37/46) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 44% points (20/45) on her second serve. Kudermetova was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (6/12). On the other side, Alexandrova was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (4/6). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Kudermetova and Alexandrova is 2-0 for Veronika.

Next Match: Veronika Kudermetova vs. Belinda Bencic – stats

Kudermetova will play Bencic in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 4^th time that Veronika Kudermetova and Belinda Bencic square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Bencic won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Eastbourne 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