WUHAN. Ashleigh Barty hustles Kenin in the 3rd round

Ashleigh Barty aces Sofia Kenin 6-3 7-5 in the 3^rd round in Wuhan on Wednesday. Barty will have to play Petra Martic

in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Australian won the set after she broke Sofia in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (4-2) game. Sofia tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Yet, Ashleigh kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Barty enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Kenin in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Ashleigh to win the set as the American managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Barty kept her cool to break the American in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before managing to win the set (7-5).

Sofia lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).

Statistics

After this contest, the head to head between Barty and Kenin is 4-1 for Ashleigh.

Highlights Ashleigh Barty vs. Sofia Kenin Wuhan Open – Wuhan

Next Match: Ashleigh Barty vs. Petra Martic – stats

Barty will come up against Martic in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Ashleigh Barty and Petra Martic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Barty (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Barty won 6-4 6-3

in the 3^rd round in Miami back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Alison RiskeRiske – Qiang WangWang (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Simona HalepHalep (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Kiki BertensBertens (6-1 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-2) – See H2H details