BEIJING. Angelique Kerber conquers Zhang in the 1st round

Angelique Kerber tops Shuai Zhang 6-2 1-6 6-4 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Sunday. Kerber will face Polona Hercog in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kerber had a great start in this set after breaking Zhang in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. However, that wasn’t sufficient for the German to win the set as Zhang managed to break back in the 6^th (2-4) game. Angelique kept her cool to break Zhang in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when the German won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2^nd set.

The Chinese was far too good to drop just 1 game before breaking the German 2 times and win the set 6-1.

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

3^rd set.

Angelique conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, Kerber broke back in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

Zhang was unable to find the solution in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).

Statistics

Kerber won this match even if she conquered less points than the Chinese (81 vs. 82).

Kerber was pretty focused in converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, Shuai had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 29% of her break points (4/14). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Kerber and Zhang is 2-1 for Angelique.

Next Match: Angelique Kerber vs. Polona Hercog – stats

Kerber will square off with Hercog in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 6^th time that Angelique Kerber and Polona Hercog clash against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Kerber (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kerber won 6-2 6-2 in the 1^st round in Melbourne back in January 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Anna-Lena Groenefeld/Demi SchuursGroenefeld/Demi Schuurs – Nadiya Kichenok/Abigail SpearsKichenok/Abigail Spears (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-7⁴ 7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-2 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-0 3-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (6-2 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
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Qiang WangWang (5-7 4-5 ret.) – 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
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna PliskovaPliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – Lyudmyla Kichenok/Desirae KrawczykKichenok/Desirae Krawczyk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Anna Blinkova/Renata VoracovaBlinkova/Renata Voracova (6-4 6-4) – 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
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 1-6 6-4) – 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
• 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
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – 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
• 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

• 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
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Polona HercogHercog (3-2) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison KeysKeys (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