BEIJING. Spirited Kiki Bertens survives Vekic in the 1st round

Kiki Bertens survives Donna Vekic 3-6 6-1 7-6³ in the 1^st round in Beijing on Saturday after conquering a huge battle. Bertens will play Dayana Yastremska in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that the Croatian conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Bertens had a great start in this set after breaking Vekic in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Bertens managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Donna in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

3^rd set.

Bertens won the set after recovering 3 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve 3 times in the 4^th (1-3), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. Bertens broke back 3 times in the 5^th (2-3), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.

Bertens failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 30.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Dutch scored 101 points vs. the Croatian’s 89 points.

Bertens struck 10 aces and she committed 5 double faults. Kiki was pretty good in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8). On the other side, the Croatian didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (4/8). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Bertens and Vekic is 4-2 for Kiki.

Next Match: Kiki Bertens vs. Dayana Yastremska – stats

Bertens will come up against Yastremska in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Kiki Bertens and Dayana Yastremska since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

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

Upcoming matches

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• 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
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• 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