Magda Linette routs Heather Watson 6-2 6-1 in the qualifications in Beijing on Saturday after playing a superlative match to play Sloane Stephens in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Linette started the set strong after breaking Watson in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Linette managed to boost her lead after breaking heather in the 8th (6-2) game before winning the set.
Magda lost a big opportunity to break heather in the 6th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
Linette had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Watson in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Magda extended her lead after breaking Watson in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when the Pole won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Linette scored 64 points vs. heather ‘s 40 points.
Linette served extremely well to win 85% of the points (22/26) behind her first serve, and she won 61% points (11/18) on her second serve. The Pole won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, heather wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Linette and Watson is 1-0 for Magda.
Next Match: Magda Linette vs. Sloane Stephens – stats
Linette will come up against Stephens in the 1st round.
This will be the 3rd time that Magda Linette and Sloane Stephens fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Stephens (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Stephens won 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in Washington back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Lauren DavisDavis – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Yue YuanYuan (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Heather WatsonWatson (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Misaki DoiDoi (6-1 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (7-5 7-67) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteLinette – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – 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
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-1) – See H2H details
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
- Qiang WangWang – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (1-0) – See H2H details
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (0-1) – See H2H details
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
- Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (2-2) – See H2H details
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-3) – See H2H details