BEIJING. Petra Kvitova prevails over Mladenovic in the 2nd round

Petra Kvitova gets by Kristina Mladenovic 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Beijing on Tuesday. Kvitova is going to play against Belinda Bencic in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kvitova started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Mladenovic in the 1^st game (1-0). That break resulted decisive for the Czech to win the set (6-4) as no one dropped a serve anymore.

Petra was unable to break Mladenovic in the 9^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Kvitova commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Mladenovic in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, that was not enough for Petra to win the set because Kristina succeeded in breaking back in the 6^th (2-4) game.

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Kvitova and Mladenovic is 9-1 for Petra.

Highlights Petra Kvitova vs. Kristina Mladenovic China Open – Beijing

Next Match: Petra Kvitova vs. Belinda Bencic – stats

Kvitova will compete against Bencic in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 5^th time that Petra Kvitova and Belinda Bencic play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Kvitova (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Bencic won 6-3 1-6 6-2 in the final in Dubai back in February 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 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
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 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