Elina Svitolina wins against Sofia Kenin 6-3 6-78 6-3 in the 3rd round in Beijing on Wednesday. Svitolina will square off with Kiki Bertens in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Elina conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Svitolina was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Kenin in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Sofia was not done to come back to break Elina in the 2nd (1-1) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 8.
3rd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Svitolina conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Ukrainian scored 121 points vs. Kenin’s 106 points.
Svitolina served very well to win 75% of the points (60/80) behind her first serve, and she won 53% points (25/47) on her second serve. The Ukrainian blasted 13 aces and she committed 3 double faults. Svitolina didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that she procured (3/6). On the other side, Sofia had some problems in converting her break points because she converted only 10% of her break points (1/10). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Kenin is 2-2.
Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Kiki Bertens – stats
Svitolina will square off with Bertens in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Elina Svitolina and Kiki Bertens clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), but Bertens has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Svitolina won 7-5 6-75 6-4 in the semifinal in Singapore back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Kiki BertensBertens – Polona HercogHercog (7-66 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-3 6-75 6-2) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 6-78 6-3) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-4) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (3-1) – See H2H details
