Heather Watson surprises Qiang Wang 6-3 6-0 in the 2nd round in Tianjin on Thursday after playing a fantastic match to clash against Magda Linette in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Watson started the set strong after breaking Wang in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Watson to win the set as the Chinese found the way to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. Heather maintained her focus to break Wang in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Wang had to weaponry to counter the opposition and heather won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, heather scored 66 points vs. Qiang’s 44 points.
Heather was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (5/10). On the other side, Qiang was struggling in converting her break points as she converted only 13% of her break points (1/8). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Watson and Wang is 1-0 for Heather.
Highlights Heather Watson vs. Qiang Wang Tianjin Open – Tianjin
Next Match: Heather Watson vs. Magda Linette – stats
Watson will face Linette in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Heather Watson and Magda Linette fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Linette (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Linette won 6-2 6-1 in the qualifications in Beijing back in September 2019.
Tennis Scores in Tianjin
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Saisai ZhengZheng (5-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Shuai PengPeng (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Kurumi NaraNara (4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Heather WatsonWatson – Qiang WangWang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Xiyu WangWang (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (7-5 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Samantha StosurStosur (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yafan WangWang – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-1) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteLinette – Heather WatsonWatson (1-0) – See H2H details