BEIJING. Ferocious Evans soars past Cui in the qualifications of the China Open

Daniel Evans blitzes Jie Cui 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in Beijing on Saturday after playing a superlative match to come up against Vasek Pospisil in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Daniel conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Evans had a strong start of this set after breaking Cui in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Evans managed to boost his lead after breaking Cui in the 3^rd (3-0) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before winning the set.

A crucial moment of the match was when Daniel won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Daniel scored 66 points vs. the Chinese’s 44 points.

Evans didn’t lose the focus when converting 80% of the break points that he conquered (4/5). On the other side, Cui wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Evans and Cui is 1-0 for Daniel.

Next Match: Daniel Evans vs. Vasek Pospisil – stats

Evans will square off with Pospisil in the qualifications.

This will be the 2^nd time that Daniel Evans and Vasek Pospisil fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pospisil (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Evans won 3-6 7-5 6-2 in the semifinal in Vancouver Challenger back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Di WuWu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Yecong HeHe (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Jie CuiCui (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Andreas SeppiSeppi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Frank DancevicDancevic (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Jason JungJung (6-3 6-7(4) 6-4) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (w/o) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andy MurrayMurray – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – See H2H details
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (3-0) – See H2H details
• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – John IsnerIsner (7-4) – See H2H details
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Fabio FogniniFognini (2-2) – See H2H details
• Daniel EvansEvans – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-1) – See H2H details
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Andrey RublevRublev (2-1) – See H2H details
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-1) – See H2H details
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Guido PellaPella (1-0) – See H2H details
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (3-0) – See H2H details
• Dominic ThiemThiem – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-2) – See H2H details
• Kyle EdmundEdmund – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Alexander ZverevZverev (1-4) – See H2H details
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (1-0) – See H2H details