Elina Svitolina ousts Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 6-2 in the 3rd round in Wuhan on Wednesday. Svitolina is going to play against Alison Riske in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Elina won the set after she broke the Russian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game. Svetlana tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. However, the Ukrainian didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.
The Ukrainian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 15.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Ukrainian won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.
2nd set.
Svitolina started the set strong after breaking Kuznetsova in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Elina to win the set because Kuznetsova managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Elina kept her cool to break Kuznetsova in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when Svitolina won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Elina scored 65 points vs. Kuznetsova’s 47 points.
Elina served extremely well to win 77% of the points (23/30) behind her first serve, and she won 53% points (9/17) on her second serve. Svitolina was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10
). On the other side, Svetlana was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Kuznetsova is 3-1 for Elina.
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova Wuhan Open – Wuhan
Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Alison Riske – stats
Svitolina will fight against Riske in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Elina Svitolina and Alison Riske fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Svitolina won 6-2 4-6 6-0 in the 1st round in Cincinnati back in 2015.
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