BEIJING. Nicole Melichar/Kveta Peschke victorious over Brady/Katarina Srebotnik in the 1st round

Nicole Melichar/Kveta Peschke beats Jennifer Brady/Katarina Srebotnik 6-2 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Beijing on Sunday. Melichar/Kveta Peschke will fight against Julia Goerges/Anastasija Sevastova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Nicole in this set was much more effective than Brady/Katarina Srebotnik and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Jennifer in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Melichar/Kveta Peschke won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

Nicole won the set after she broke Brady/Katarina Srebotnik in the 3^rd (2-1) game. Brady/Katarina Srebotnik tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. Yet, Melichar/Kveta Peschke maintained the focus before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Nicole scored 66 points vs. Jennifer’s 58 points.

Melichar/Kveta Peschke won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Jennifer wasn’t that great in converting her break points as she converted only 20% of her break points (1/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Melichar/Kveta Peschke and Brady/Katarina Srebotnik is 2-0 for Nicole.

Next Match: Nicole Melichar/Kveta Peschke vs. Julia Goerges/Anastasija Sevastova – stats

Melichar/Kveta Peschke will fight against Goerges/Anastasija Sevastova in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Nicole Melichar/Kveta Peschke and Julia Goerges/Anastasija Sevastova since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Anna-Lena Groenefeld/Demi SchuursGroenefeld/Demi Schuurs – Nadiya Kichenok/Abigail SpearsKichenok/Abigail Spears (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-7⁴ 7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-0 3-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-2 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Julia Goerges/Anastasija SevastovaGoerges/Anastasija Sevastova – Makoto Ninomiya/Zhaoxuan YangNinomiya/Zhaoxuan Yang (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Anna Blinkova/Renata VoracovaBlinkova/Renata Voracova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Nicole Melichar/Kveta PeschkeMelichar/Kveta Peschke – Jennifer Brady/Katarina SrebotnikBrady/Katarina Srebotnik (6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Qiang WangWang (5-7 4-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna PliskovaPliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – Lyudmyla Kichenok/Desirae KrawczykKichenok/Desirae Krawczyk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – 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
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – 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
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – 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