BEIJING. Alexandrova wins against Pera in the 1st round of the China Open

Ekaterina Alexandrova topples Bernarda Pera 5-7 6-2 6-4 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Sunday. Alexandrova will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Simona Halep in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Bernarda won the set after she broke the Russian in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 12^th (7-5) game. Ekaterina tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Notwithstanding, Pera refused to give way before winning the set 7-5.

The Russian lost the 4^th game (3-1) when she had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

2^nd set.

Alexandrova in this set was much more effective than the American and therefore she won 6-2 after breaking Bernarda in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Pera was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

3^rd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Ekaterina conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Alexandrova scored 97 points vs. the American’s 85 points.

The Russian served very well to win 78% of the points (38/49) behind her first serve, and she won 59% points (19/32) on her second serve. Alexandrova won this match even if she had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, the American was pretty good in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (2/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Alexandrova and Pera is 1-0 for Ekaterina.

Next Match: Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Simona Halep – stats

Alexandrova will come up against Halep in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Ekaterina Alexandrova and Simona Halep clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Halep won 3-6 7-5 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Cincinnati back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Qiang WangWang (5-7 4-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – 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
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Anna Blinkova/Renata VoracovaBlinkova/Renata Voracova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna PliskovaPliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – Lyudmyla Kichenok/Desirae KrawczykKichenok/Desirae Krawczyk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (5-7 6-2 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
• 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
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – 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
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – 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
• 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
• Angelique KerberKerber – Polona HercogHercog (3-2) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details