TIANJIN. Stosur gets by Yang in the 1st round

Samantha Stosur overcomes Zhaoxuan Yang 7-5 2-6 6-2 in the 1^st round in Tianjin on Monday. Stosur will have to play Yulia Putintseva in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Australian won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 5^th (1-4) game. The Australian broke back 3 times in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 12^th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Australian won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-4 to 5-4.

Notwithstanding also the Chinese won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1

2^nd set.

Yang had a great start in this set after breaking Stosur in the 1^st game (1-0). Zhaoxuan extended her lead after breaking Samantha in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

3^rd set.

Stosur started the set in the best possible way after breaking Yang in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Australian to win the set as Zhaoxuan managed to break back in the 5^th (2-3) game. Stosur maintained her focus to break the Chinese in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Australian scored 94 points vs. Yang’s 92 points.

Stosur won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 40% (6/15). On the other side, Yang was effective when converting 56% of the break points that she procured points (5/9). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Stosur and Yang is 1-0 for Samantha.

Next Match: Samantha Stosur vs. Yulia Putintseva – stats

Stosur will compete against Putintseva in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Samantha Stosur and Yulia Putintseva face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Stosur (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Stosur won 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in Osaka back in 2014.

Tennis Scores in Tianjin

• Heather WatsonWatson – Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Astra SharmaSharma (6-1 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Samantha StosurStosur – Zhaoxuan YangYang (7-5 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Xiyu WangWang – Kristie AhnAhn (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Jennifer BradyBrady (0-1) – See H2H details
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Shuai ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Ying-Ying DuanDuan (2-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Shuai PengPeng – Xiaodi YouYou (0-0) – See H2H details
• Lin ZhuZhu – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Christina MchaleMchale (1-3) – See H2H details
• Kurumi NaraNara – Harriet DartDart (0-0) – See H2H details
• Arina RodionovaRodionova – Qiang WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Samantha StosurStosur – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Yafan WangWang (1-0) – See H2H details