BEIJING. Sofia Kenin conquers Muguruza in the 1st round of the China Open

Sofia Kenin victorious over Garbine Muguruza 6-0 2-6 6-2 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Saturday. Kenin will face off with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

This was a one way set after Kenin conceded no games to the Spaniard before winning the set 6-0.

2^nd set.

Muguruza started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Kenin in the 1^st game (1-0). Garbine reinforced her lead after breaking Sofia in the 5^th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

3^rd set.

Muguruza started the set strong after breaking Kenin in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Sofia refused to bow to come back to break Muguruza 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

The Spaniard was completely knocked out in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kenin scored 84 points vs. the Spaniard’s 69 points.

The American was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (6/12). On the other side, Muguruza wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 43% of her break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Kenin and Muguruza is 1-0 for Sofia.

Next Match: Sofia Kenin vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – stats

Kenin will square off with Pavlyuchenkova in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Sofia Kenin and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Kenin won 6-2 7-6⁵ in the 1^st round in Wuhan back in September 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• 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
• 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
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – 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
• 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
• 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
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna PliskovaPliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – Lyudmyla Kichenok/Desirae Krawczyk
  Kichenok/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
• 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
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – 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
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – 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

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