TIANJIN. Peterson beats Wang in the quarter

TIANJIN OPEN - TIANJIN. Peterson victorious over Wang to play Ons Jabeur in the semifinal

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Rebecca Peterson vs. Yafan Wang

Rebecca Peterson gets the better of Yafan Wang 6-75 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in Tianjin on Friday. Peterson will face Ons Jabeur in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Yafan won the set after she broke Peterson in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game. Peterson tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (2-3) and in the 8th (4-4) game. Anyhow, the Chinese stayed solid before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.

2nd set.

Wang had a strong start of this set after breaking Peterson in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, the Swede was not done to come back to break Yafan 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

A crucial moment of the match was when Peterson won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-2 to 4-2.

3rd set.

Rebecca in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Wang and for that reason she won 6-2 after breaking the Chinese in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Rebecca won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Rebecca scored 115 points vs. Wang’s 103 points.

Peterson was pretty good in converting 55% of the break points that she conquered (6/11). On the other side, Yafan was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 25% of her break points (3/12). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Peterson and Wang is 2-0 for Rebecca.

Highlights Rebecca Peterson vs. Yafan Wang Tianjin Open – Tianjin

Next Match: Rebecca Peterson vs. Ons Jabeur – stats

Peterson will square off with Jabeur in the semifinal.

There is no head to head record between Rebecca Peterson and Ons Jabeur since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Tianjin

  • Heather WatsonWatson – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-74 7-66) – See score progression
  • Ons JabeurJabeur – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-65 7-64) – See score progression
  • Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Yafan WangWang (6-75 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
  • Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
  • Xinyun Han/Lin ZhuHan/Lin Zhu – Darija Jurak/Desirae KrawczykJurak/Desirae Krawczyk (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
  • Nao Hibino/Miyu KatoHibino/Miyu Kato – Christina Mchale/Yanina WickmayerMchale/Yanina Wickmayer (w/o) – See score progression
  • Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Yafan Wang/Zhaoxuan YangWang/Zhaoxuan Yang (5-7 6-4 14-12) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

  • Ons JabeurJabeur – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-0) – See H2H details
  • Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Heather WatsonWatson (0-0) – See H2H details