Christina Mchale upsets Tamara Zidansek 7-5 7-67 in the qualifications in Beijing on Saturday. Mchale will play against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Zidansek started the set in the best possible way after breaking Mchale in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, Christina managed to stage a good comeback to break Zidansek in the 7th (3-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
2nd set.
The American conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 8th (3-5) game, Christina broke back in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 7.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Mchale scored 92 points vs. Tamara’s 84 points.
Mchale served pretty well to win 76% of the points (45/59) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 33% points (10/30) on her second serve. Mchale won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Tamara was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 20% of her break points (2/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Mchale and Zidansek is 1-0 for Christina.
Next Match: Christina Mchale vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova – stats
Mchale will fight against Kuznetsova in the 1st round.
This will be the 5th time that Christina Mchale and Svetlana Kuznetsova play each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Mchale and Kuznetsova (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kuznetsova won 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Paris back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Misaki DoiDoi (6-1 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Christina MchaleMchale – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (7-5 7-67) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraPera – Yue YuanYuan (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Heather WatsonWatson (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Lauren DavisDavis – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-3 6-1) – 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
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- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – 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
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
- Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (2-2) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details