Alison Riske trashes Qiang Wang 6-2 6-1 in the 3rd round in Wuhan on Wednesday after playing a solid match to clash against Elina Svitolina in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Wang came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Riske in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Alison managed to stage a great comeback to break the Chinese 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 6th (4-2) gamein the 8th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Wang was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Riske had a racing start in this set after breaking Wang in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Riske improved her lead after breaking Wang in the 6th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the American scored 60 points vs. Wang’s 42 points.
Riske won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points because she converted only 42% (5/12). On the other side, the Chinese was stunning in converting all the break points (1/1). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Riske and Wang is 3-0 for Alison.
Next Match: Alison Riske vs. Elina Svitolina – stats
Riske will play Svitolina in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Alison Riske and Elina Svitolina play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Svitolina won 6-2 4-6 6-0 in the 1st round in Cincinnati back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Kiki BertensBertens (6-1 7-69) – See score progression
- Petra MarticMartic – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Simona HalepHalep (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Qiang WangWang (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-1 6-4) – 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
