BEIJING. Naomi Osaka prevails over Pegula in the 1st round of the China Open

Naomi Osaka hustles Jessica Pegula 6-3 7-6⁵ in the 1^st round in Beijing on Sunday. Osaka will square off with Andrea Petkovic in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Osaka won the set after she broke the American in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game. Jessica tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (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 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

Osaka won the set after she broke the American in the 11^th (6-5) game. Jessica tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 12^th (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 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd 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 2^nd 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