BEIJING. Elina Svitolina beats Sevastova in the 1st round

Elina Svitolina overcomes Anastasija Sevastova 6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Sunday. Svitolina will play against Yafan Wang in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sevastova got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Svitolina in the 2^nd game (2-0). Yet, there was more work to do for the Latvian to win the set as the Ukrainian succeeded in breaking back in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (4-5) game. Anastasija maintained her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.

Anastasija failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.

2^nd set.

Svitolina was too strong to drop just 1 game before breaking Anastasija 2 times and win the set 6-1.

Anastasija was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Svitolina overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Sevastova in the 1^st game (1-0). Svitolina managed to boost her lead after breaking Anastasija in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

Statistics

After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Sevastova is 1-1.

Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Yafan Wang – stats

Svitolina will compete against Wang in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Elina Svitolina and Yafan Wang play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Wang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Wang won 6-2 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Miami back in March 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• 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
• 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
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – 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
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – 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
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – 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
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression

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