
Naomi Osaka hustles Jessica Pegula 6-3 7-65 in the 1st round in Beijing on Sunday. Osaka will square off with Andrea Petkovic in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Osaka won the set after she broke the American in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game. Jessica tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (5-2) game. Anyhow, Osaka stayed solid before winning the set 6-3.
Osaka failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 15.
A crucial moment of the match was when Naomi won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
2nd set.
Osaka won the set after she broke the American in the 11th (6-5) game. Jessica tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 12th (6-6) game. Yet, the Japanese maintained the focus before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.
Osaka failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 30.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Naomi scored 70 points vs. the American’s 64 points.
Naomi served very well to win 76% of the points (28/37) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 46% points (17/37) on her second serve. Naomi was sharp when converting 75% of the break points that she procured (3/4). On the other side, Jessica didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Osaka and Pegula is 1-0 for Naomi.
Next Match: Naomi Osaka vs. Andrea Petkovic – stats
Osaka will face Petkovic in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Naomi Osaka and Andrea Petkovic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Petkovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Petkovic won 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Stanford back in 2014.
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
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
- Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – 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
- 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