BEIJING. Svitolina gets the better of Wang in the 2nd round

Elina Svitolina wins against Yafan Wang 7-6⁵ 7-6¹ in the 2^nd round in Beijing on Monday. Svitolina will play against Sofia Kenin in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Wang was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Svitolina in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Svitolina found the way to come back to break Wang in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 12^th (6-6) game before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

2^nd set.

Wang overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Svitolina in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, Svitolina refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Wang in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (3-4) game before winning the set at the breaker at 1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Elina scored 100 points vs. the Chinese’s 84 points.

Svitolina won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, Wang was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (4/6). Yet, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Svitolina and Wang is 1-1.

Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Sofia Kenin – stats

Svitolina will play Kenin in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 4^th time that Elina Svitolina and Sofia Kenin face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Kenin won 6-3 7-6³ in the 3^rd round in Cincinnati back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Simona HalepHalep (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (7-6⁵ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – 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
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Christina MchaleMchale (4-2) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-3) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sofia KeninKenin (1-2) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – See H2H details