BEIJING. Samantha Stosur/Shuai Zhang gets by Rosolska/Storm Sanders in the 1st round

Samantha Stosur/Shuai Zhang downs Alicja Rosolska/Storm Sanders 4-6 6-3 10-8 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Saturday. Stosur/Shuai Zhang will fight against Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna Pliskova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Rosolska/Storm Sanders won the set after she broke Stosur/Shuai Zhang 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (5-4) game. Samantha tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Nonetheless, Alicja maintained the focus before winning the set 6-4.

2^nd set.

Rosolska/Storm Sanders conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Stosur/Shuai Zhang in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Stosur/Shuai Zhang refused to bow to come back to break Rosolska/Storm Sanders 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Samantha conquered in the 18^th game (10-8).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Stosur/Shuai Zhang scored 69 points vs. Rosolska/Storm Sanders’s 60 points.

Stosur/Shuai Zhang was well focused in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8). On the other side, Rosolska/Storm Sanders was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 45% of her break points (5/11). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Stosur/Shuai Zhang and Rosolska/Storm Sanders is 1-0 for Samantha.

Next Match: Samantha Stosur/Shuai Zhang vs. Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – stats

Stosur/Shuai Zhang will compete against Pliskova/Kristyna Pliskova in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Samantha Stosur/Shuai Zhang and Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna Pliskova since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

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• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – 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
• Sloane StephensStephens – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – 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
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – 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
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

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