BEIJING. Superlative Siniakova trashes Ostapenko in the 2nd round

Katerina Siniakova routs Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-1 in the 2^nd round in Beijing on Monday after playing a remarkable match to deal with Caroline Wozniacki in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Katerina in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Jelena and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking Ostapenko in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game.

Siniakova missed the opportunity to break the Latvian in the 7^th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

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

2^nd set.

Siniakova didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Ostapenko in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Katerina reinforced her lead after breaking Ostapenko in the 3^rd (3-0) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before winning the set.

A crucial moment of the match was when Katerina won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Czech scored 57 points vs. the Latvian’s 35 points.

Siniakova served extremely well to win 75% of the points (21/28) behind her first serve, and she won 70% points (7/10) on her second serve. Siniakova was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10). On the other side, the Latvian wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Siniakova and Ostapenko is 1-0 for Katerina.

Next Match: Katerina Siniakova vs. Caroline Wozniacki – stats

Siniakova will fight against Wozniacki in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 5^th time that Katerina Siniakova and Caroline Wozniacki square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Wozniacki (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Wozniacki won 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in Beijing back in 2018.

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