TIANJIN. Qiang Wang ousts Rodionova in the 1st round

Qiang Wang tops Arina Rodionova 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Tianjin on Tuesday. Wang will seek to keep on going in this event against Heather Watson in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Wang had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Rodionova in the 2^nd game (2-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for the Chinese to win the set because Rodionova found the way to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Qiang maintained her focus to break Rodionova in the 4^th (3-1) game before conquering the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Wang took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Rodionova in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for the Chinese to win the set since Rodionova succeeded in breaking back in the 6^th (3-3) game. Wang maintained her focus to break Rodionova in the 9^th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Wang scored 66 points vs. the Australian’s 54 points.

Qiang was effective in converting 57% of the break points that she procured (4/7). On the other side, Arina had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 33% of her break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Wang and Rodionova is 1-0 for Qiang.

Highlights Qiang Wang vs. Arina Rodionova Tianjin Open – Tianjin

Next Match: Qiang Wang vs. Heather Watson – stats

Wang will face Watson in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Qiang Wang and Heather Watson since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Tianjin

• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Shuyue MaMa (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Kurumi NaraNara – Harriet DartDart (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Christina MchaleMchale (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Shuai PengPeng – Xiaodi YouYou (6-2 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Xiyu WangWang – Kristie AhnAhn (6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Ying-Ying DuanDuan (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Heather WatsonWatson – Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (2-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Samantha StosurStosur – Zhaoxuan YangYang (7-5 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Astra SharmaSharma (6-1 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (6-0 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Xiyu WangWang – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Samantha StosurStosur – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Yafan WangWang (1-0) – See H2H details
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Shuai PengPeng – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-1) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Kurumi NaraNara (1-2) – See H2H details
• Heather WatsonWatson – Qiang WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details