Katerina Siniakova thumps Xiyu Wang 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Beijing on Saturday after playing a solid match to come up against Jelena Ostapenko in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Siniakova in this set was too strong for the Chinese and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Wang in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
2nd set.
Siniakova had a racing start in this set after breaking Wang in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Siniakova to win the set as Xiyu succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Siniakova maintained her cool to break the Chinese in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Wang was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Siniakova scored 66 points vs. Wang’s 43 points.
Katerina served very well to win 80% of the points (24/30) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 47% points (8/17) on her second serve. Katerina was pretty focused in converting 56% of the break points that she conquered (5/9). On the other side, Wang was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 33% of her break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Siniakova and Wang is 1-0 for Katerina.
Next Match: Katerina Siniakova vs. Jelena Ostapenko – stats
Siniakova will square off with Ostapenko in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Katerina Siniakova and Jelena Ostapenko since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.
The last time that they competed against each other, Siniakova won 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in Australian Open (juniors) back in 2013.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
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- Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
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