WUHAN. Fantastic Halep soars past Zahlavova Strycova in the 2nd round of the Wuhan Open

Simona Halep crushes Barbora Strycova 6-3 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Wuhan on Tuesday after playing a solid match to fight against Elena Rybakina in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Halep commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Zahlavova Strycova in the 1^st game (1-0). However, that was not enough for Halep to win the set as Zahlavova Strycova succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Halep kept her focus to break Barbora in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

Zahlavova Strycova was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Simona in this set played at a much higher level than Barbora and consequentely she won 6-2. Barbora broke Simona 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. However, Halep broke her opponent in the 5^th (3-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to win the set (6-2).

Zahlavova Strycova lost the 4^th game (3-1) when she was serving and leading 40-0.

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Halep and Zahlavova Strycova is 6-1 for Simona.

Next Match: Simona Halep vs. Elena Rybakina – stats

Halep will take on Rybakina in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Simona Halep and Elena Rybakina since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Polona HercogHercog (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 6-7(3) 6-2) – See score progression

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