WUHAN. Puig upsets Kerber in the 1st round

Monica Puig surprises Angelique Kerber 7-6⁵ 5-7 6-1 in the 1^st round in Wuhan on Monday. Puig will square off with Alison Riske in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Monica won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 7^th (3-4) and in the 9^th (4-5) game. Puig broke back in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.

2^nd set.

Puig had a great start in this set after breaking Kerber in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Angelique managed to stage a good comeback to break Puig in the 10^th (5-5) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Puig was unable to find the solution in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).

3^rd set.

Puig conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Kerber in the 1^st game (1-0). The Puerto Rican managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Kerber in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

The German lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Puig scored 125 points vs. Kerber’s 112 points.

Puig was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she procured (6/12). On the other side, the German was far from perfect 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 loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Puig and Kerber is 3-3.

Next Match: Monica Puig vs. Alison Riske – stats

Puig will play Riske in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Monica Puig and Alison Riske square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Puig (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Puig won 6-4 6-1 in the qualifications in Beijing back in 2015.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Christina MchaleMchale – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – 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
• 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
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Donna VekicVekic (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6⁵ 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Xiyu WangWang (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-0 6-1) – 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
• 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
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 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