Qiang Wang grounds Fiona Ferro 6-1 6-2 in the 2nd round in Melbourne on Wednesday after playing a fantastic match to come up against Serena Williams in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Qiang was too strong to concede just 1 game before breaking the French Player 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Ferro was completely outplayed in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
2nd set.
The Chinese in this set played a much better tennis than Fiona and without too much hustling she won 6-2. Fiona broke Wang 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game. However, Qiang broke her opponent in the 6th (4-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to conquer the set (6-2).
A defining moment of this contest was when the Chinese won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 55 points vs. the French Player’s 31 points.
Qiang was pretty focused in converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9). On the other side, Fiona was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Wang and Ferro is 5-1 for Qiang.
Highlights Qiang Wang vs. Fiona Ferro Australian Open – Melbourne
Next Match H2H: Qiang Wang vs. Serena Williams – stats
Wang will square off with Williams in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Qiang Wang and Serena Williams clash 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 fought against each other, Williams won 6-1 6-0 in the quarter in New York back in 2019.
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