SHENZHEN RESULTS. Elina Svitolina tops Pliskova in the Round Robin

Elina Svitolina dispatches Karolina Pliskova 7-6¹² 6-4 in the Round Robin in Shenzhen on Monday. Svitolina is going to play against Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in the Round Robin.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Pliskova started the set in the best possible way after breaking Svitolina in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the Ukrainian managed to stage a good comeback to break Pliskova in the 4^th (2-2) game before winning the set at the breaker at 12.

2^nd set.

Svitolina was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Pliskova in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, that was not enough for the Ukrainian to win the set because Pliskova succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (2-2) game. The Ukrainian maintained her focus to break Pliskova in the 7^th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Ukrainian scored 86 points vs. Pliskova’s 82 points.

The Ukrainian won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, Pliskova didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Pliskova is 4-4.

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Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Bianca Vanessa Andreescu – stats

Svitolina will fight against Vanessa Andreescu in the Round Robin.

This will be the 2^nd time that Elina Svitolina and Bianca Vanessa Andreescu fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vanessa Andreescu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they squared off, Vanessa Andreescu won 6-3 2-6 6-4 in the semifinal in Indian Wells back in March 2019.

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen

• Simona HalepHalep – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (3-6 7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-6¹² 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Petra KvitovaKvitova (7-6¹ 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina SiniakovaKrejcikova/Katerina Siniakova – Gabriela Dabrowski/Yifan XuDabrowski/Yifan Xu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Belinda BencicBencic (5-7 6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Naomi OsakaOsaka (2-2) – See H2H details
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Belinda BencicBencic (0-3) – See H2H details
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Belinda BencicBencic (4-1) – See H2H details
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-1) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-0) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (5-4) – See H2H details