Sloane Stephens downs Magda Linette 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Beijing on Sunday. Stephens will have to play Saisai Zheng in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The American won the set after she broke Linette 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Linette tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) and in the 10th (5-5) game. However, the American didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 7-5.
2nd set.
Linette started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Stephens in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, Stephens found the way to come back to break Linette 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (4-3) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Linette was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Sloane scored 77 points vs. Magda’s 67 points.
Stephens won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points since she converted only 43% (6/14). On the other side, Magda was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (3/6). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this encounter, the head to head between Stephens and Linette is 3-0 for Sloane.
Next Match: Sloane Stephens vs. Saisai Zheng – stats
Stephens will play Zheng in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Sloane Stephens and Saisai Zheng face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Stephens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Stephens won 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Madrid back in May 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