WUHAN. Petra Kvitova gets the better of Hercog in the 2nd round of the Wuhan Open

Petra Kvitova conquers Polona Hercog 7-6⁶ 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Wuhan on Monday. Kvitova will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Sloane Stephens in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Finally, the Czech won the breaker at 6.

2^nd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Czech conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Czech scored 77 points vs. the Slovenian’s 68 points.

The Czech served pretty well to win 75% of the points (30/40) behind her first serve, and she won 54% points (19/35) on her second serve. Kvitova won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 33% (1/3). On the other side, the Slovenian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Kvitova and Hercog is 2-0 for Petra.

Next Match: Petra Kvitova vs. Sloane Stephens – stats

Kvitova will fight against Stephens in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Petra Kvitova and Sloane Stephens clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Stephens (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Stephens won 6-2 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Cincinnati back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 6-7³ 6-2) – 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
• Petra MarticMartic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-0 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Yafan WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – 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
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (4-5) – See H2H details
• Christina MchaleMchale – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-0) – See H2H details
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details