BEIJING. Superlative Kenin soars past Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round

CHINA OPEN - BEIJING. Kenin vanquishes Pavlyuchenkova to come up against Elina Svitolina in the 3rd round

Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Sofia Kenin motors past Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Beijing on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to come up against Elina Svitolina in the 3rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Pavlyuchenkova had a great start in this set after breaking Kenin in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, the American managed to stage a great comeback to break Anastasia 4 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (4-3) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Anastasia had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-3 to 6-3).

2nd set.

The American in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Pavlyuchenkova and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking the Russian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.

Statistics

After this match, the head to head between Kenin and Pavlyuchenkova is 2-0 for Sofia.

Next Match: Sofia Kenin vs. Elina Svitolina – stats

Kenin will square off with Svitolina in the 3rd round.

This will be the 4th time that Sofia Kenin and Elina Svitolina clash against each other. 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 3rd round in Cincinnati back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

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