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
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Christina MchaleMchale (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-4) – 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
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-2 6-1) – 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
- 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
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-1) – See H2H details