Polona Hercog wins against Julia Goerges 6-74 7-65 6-4 in the 1st round in Beijing on Saturday. Hercog will face Angelique Kerber in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The German won the set after she broke the Slovenian 3 times in the 6th (4-2), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 12th (6-6) game. Hercog tried to stage a comeback breaking 3 times in the 7th (4-3), in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (5-6) game. However, Goerges maintained the focus before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.
Julia failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.
2nd set.
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, Hercog won the tiebreak at 5.
3rd set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Polona conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).
Polona lost a big opportunity to break the German in the 7th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Slovenian scored 125 points vs. Goerges’s 118 points.
The Slovenian served pretty well to win 82% of the points (49/60) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 47% points (30/64) on her second serve. Polona won this match even if she was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, the German had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 21% of her break points (3/14). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Hercog and Goerges is 3-6 for Julia.
Next Match: Polona Hercog vs. Angelique Kerber – stats
Hercog will fight against Kerber in the 2nd round.
This will be the 6th time that Polona Hercog and Angelique Kerber fight 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 locked horns, Kerber won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in January 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
- Madison KeysKeys – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-74 7-62 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
- Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – 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
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-74 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-64 6-3) – 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 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
- Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-74 7-65 6-4) – 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
- Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-63) – 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