Serena Williams destroys Tamara Zidansek 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in Melbourne on Wednesday after playing a solid match to face off with Qiang Wang in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Williams didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Zidansek in the 1st game (1-0). The American reinforced her lead after breaking Zidansek in the 5th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
2nd set.
Williams won the set after she broke Tamara in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game. That was enough for Williams to conquer the set since she didn’t concede her serve in the rest of the set.
Serena missed the chance to break Tamara in the 3rd game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40) in the 3rd (40-0) and in the 5th (40-0) game.
Zidansek couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).
Statistics
After this encounter, the head to head between Williams and Zidansek is 1-0 for Serena.
Highlights Serena Williams vs. Tamara Zidansek Australian Open – Melbourne
Williams’s Interview
Next Match H2H: Serena Williams vs. Qiang Wang – stats
Williams will compete against Wang in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Serena Williams and Qiang Wang fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Williams (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Williams won 6-1 6-0 in the quarter in New York back in 2019.
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
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- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Lin ZhuZhu (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Polona HercogHercog (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Nao HibinoHibino (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Julia GoergesGoerges – Petra MarticMartic (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Arantxa RusRus (7-6(3) 6-2) – See score progression
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