BEIJING. Alison Riske bests Tomljanovic in the 2nd round of the China Open

Alison Riske prevails over Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3 3-6 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Beijing on Tuesday. Riske will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Naomi Osaka in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Riske had a great start in this set after breaking Tomljanovic in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That break was sufficient for Alison to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.

Tomljanovic lost the 2^nd game (2-0) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.

2^nd set.

Ajla won the set after she broke Alison in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (4-2) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Notwithstanding, the Croatian maintained the focus before winning the set 6-3.

3^rd set.

Alison won the set after she broke the Croatian in the 8^th (5-3) and in the 10^th (6-4) game. Ajla tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9^th (5-4) game. Yet, Riske didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.

Alison failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Riske scored 109 points vs. Ajla’s 95 points.

The American won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 22% (4/18). On the other side, Ajla was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (3/6). However, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Riske and Tomljanovic is 2-0 for Alison.

Next Match: Alison Riske vs. Naomi Osaka – stats

Riske will face Osaka in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Alison Riske and Naomi Osaka fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Riske (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Riske won 7-5 3-2 ret. in the qualifications in Madrid back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison KeysKeys (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-3 3-6 6-4) – 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
• Polona HercogHercog – Angelique KerberKerber (6-4 6-2) – 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
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Gabriela Dabrowski/Yifan XuDabrowski/Yifan Xu – Darija Jurak/Maria-Jose Martinez SanchezJurak/Maria-Jose Martinez Sanchez (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (7-6⁵ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Simona HalepHalep (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (6-3 7-6(5)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Saisai ZhengZheng (3-0) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-3) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sofia KeninKenin (1-2) – See H2H details
• Polona HercogHercog – Kiki BertensBertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (3-1) – See H2H details