BEIJING. Superb Mladenovic routs Collins in the 1st round of the China Open

Kristina Mladenovic outpaces Danielle Rose Collins 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Sunday after playing a good match to fight against Petra Kvitova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mladenovic started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Collins in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, there was more work to do for the French Player to win the set as Collins found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Kristina maintained her cool to break the American in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

Mladenovic wasted a good opportunity to break Danielle in the 5^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Collins couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2^nd set.

Mladenovic was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Collins in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Mladenovic to win the set because the American found the way to break back in the 7^th (2-5) game. The French Player kept her cool to break the American in the 8^th (6-2) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when the French Player won 5 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Mladenovic scored 62 points vs. Collins’s 43 points.

The French Player served pretty well to win 79% of the points (22/28) behind her first serve. However she won only 39% points (7/18) on her second serve. Mladenovic didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (6/12). On the other side, the American was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). However, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Mladenovic and Collins is 1-0 for Kristina.

Next Match: Kristina Mladenovic vs. Petra Kvitova – stats

Mladenovic will compete against Kvitova in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 10^th time that Kristina Mladenovic and Petra Kvitova play each other. The head to head is 8-1 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Kvitova won 7-5 6-2 in the 2^nd round in London back in July 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression

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• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (1-4) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-8) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details