BEIJING. Watson shocks Badosa in the qualifications

Heather Watson stuns Paula Badosa Gibert 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in Beijing on Friday. Watson will seek to keep on going in this event against Magda Linette in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Watson got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Badosa in the 2^nd game (2-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for heather to win the set since the Spaniard found the way to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Watson kept her focus to break Badosa in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Heather won the set after she broke Paula in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. Paula tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (5-3) game. Notwithstanding, heather didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-4.

Watson failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 15.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Brit scored 77 points vs. the Spaniard’s 63 points.

The Brit won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 33% (4/12). On the other side, Paula was battling in converting her break points because she converted only 40% of her break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Watson and Badosa is 1-0 for Heather.

Next Match: Heather Watson vs. Magda Linette – stats

Watson will square off with Linette in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Heather Watson and Magda Linette since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Xinyu GaoGao (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Timea BabosBabos (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Nicole GibbsGibbs (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Kristie AhnAhn (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Xiaodi YouYou (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Fang Ying XunYing Xun (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Yue YuanYuan – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Shilin XuXu (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Heather WatsonWatson – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Xinyun HanHan (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Lauren DavisDavis – Monica NiculescuNiculescu (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Yuxuan ZhangZhang (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Astra SharmaSharma (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Samantha StosurStosur (6-2 4-6 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Shuyue MaMa (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Magda LinetteLinette – Heather WatsonWatson (0-0) – See H2H details
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Misaki DoiDoi (1-0) – See H2H details
• Yue YuanYuan – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Lauren DavisDavis – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Zarina DiyasDiyas (0-1) – See H2H details
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Christina MchaleMchale (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (1-0) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (1-0) – See H2H details
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Venus WilliamsWilliams (0-4) – See H2H details
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – See H2H details
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (2-6) – See H2H details
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-1) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Kiki BertensBertens (2-3) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (0-1) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-3) – See H2H details