WUHAN. Riske downs Puig in the 2nd round of the Wuhan Open

Alison Riske gets by Monica Puig 2-6 7-6⁵ 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Wuhan on Tuesday. Riske will clash against Qiang Wang in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Puig commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Riske in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. The Puerto Rican reinforced her lead after breaking Alison in the 8^th (6-2) game before conquering the set.

2^nd set.

Riske won the set after she broke the Puerto Rican in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (3-2) game. Monica tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 6^th (3-3) game. Anyhow, Riske kept the focus before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.

Alison missed the opportunity to break Monica in the 1^st game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

3^rd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the American conquered in the 8^th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Riske scored 103 points vs. Puig’s 97 points.

The American won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 33% (3/9). On the other side, Puig was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 40% of her break points (4/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Riske and Puig is 1-1.

Next Match: Alison Riske vs. Qiang Wang – stats

Riske will square off with Wang in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Alison Riske and Qiang Wang face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Riske (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Riske won 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Shenzhen back in December 2018.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Kiki BertensBertens – Bernarda PeraPera (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-0 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Elise MertensMertens (4-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Monica PuigPuig (2-6 7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 6-7³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Yafan WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-6 6-3 6-4) – 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

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