Svetlana Kuznetsova shocks Su-Wei Hsieh 6-2 7-65 in the 2nd round in Wuhan on Tuesday. Kuznetsova will play against Elina Svitolina in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kuznetsova conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Hsieh in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set as the Chinese found the way to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. Svetlana maintained her focus to break the Chinese in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
2nd set.
Hsieh had a strong start of this set after breaking Kuznetsova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, Kuznetsova found the way to come back to break Hsieh in the 7th (3-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 74 points vs. Hsieh’s 56 points.
The Russian was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8). On the other side, Su-Wei was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Kuznetsova and Hsieh is 3-0 for Svetlana.
Next Match: Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Elina Svitolina – stats
Kuznetsova will play Svitolina in the 3rd round.
This will be the 4th time that Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elina Svitolina face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Svitolina won 7-61 4-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Elise MertensMertens (4-6 6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Yafan WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Kiki BertensBertens – Bernarda PeraPera (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Monica PuigPuig (2-6 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-0 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Polona HercogHercog (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (3-1) – See H2H details
- Petra MarticMartic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Simona HalepHalep – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Kiki BertensBertens (0-4) – See H2H details
- Qiang WangWang – Alison RiskeRiske (0-2) – See H2H details
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-2) – See H2H details
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – See H2H details