Garbine Muguruza gets the better of Xin Yu Wang 3-6 6-3 6-0 in the 1st round in Shenzhen on Monday. Muguruza will have to play Shelby Rogers in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Chinese conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
The Chinese missed the chance to break Muguruza in the 2nd game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, the set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition on serve. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Spaniard conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
The Spaniard wasted a good opportunity to break Xin in the 6th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
3rd set.
Yu lost her way in this set and Garbine won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Muguruza scored 81 points vs. Yu’s 66 points.
The Spaniard was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured (4/8). On the other side, Yu had some problems converting her break points (only 14% – 1/7). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Muguruza and Yu is 1-0 for Garbine.
Highlights Garbine Muguruza vs. Xin Yu Wang Shenzhen Open – Shenzhen
Muguruza’s Interview
After the match, Garbine commented: “It’s the first match in a long time and you cannot expect to play your best tennis. My opponent played very well in the beginning and it took me some time to be patient, to await my opportunities, and I’m happy that I managed to win.”
Next Match: Garbine Muguruza vs. Shelby Rogers – stats
Muguruza will come up against Rogers in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Garbine Muguruza and Shelby Rogers face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Muguruza (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Muguruza won 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in Paris back in 2016.
Tennis Scores in Shenzhen
- Shuai PengPeng – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Misaki Doi/Monica NiculescuDoi/Monica Niculescu – Ekaterina Alexandrova/Oksana KalashnikovaAlexandrova/Oksana Kalashnikova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-2 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Nicole GibbsGibbs (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (3-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (1-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Misaki DoiDoi (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Xiyu WangWang – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (3-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ying-Ying DuanDuan – Zarina DiyasDiyas (1-1) – See H2H details
- Shelby RogersRogers – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-1) – See H2H details
- Qiang WangWang – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
- Shuai PengPeng – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Xiyu WangWang – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
