MELBOURNE RESULTS. Zhang hustles McNally in the 2nd round

Shuai Zhang beats Caty McNally 6-2 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Melbourne on Wednesday. Zhang will square off with Sofia Kenin in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Shuai in this set was much more effective than the American and without too much hustling she won 6-2. Caty broke the Chinese 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. However, Zhang broke her opponent in the 5^th (3-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to conquer the set (6-2).

2^nd set.

Shuai conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 5^th (2-3) game, Shuai broke back in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

Caty was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Zhang scored 70 points vs. McNally’s 55 points.

Zhang won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points as she converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Caty was effective when converting 67% of the break points that she conquered points (2/3). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Zhang and McNally is 1-0 for Shuai.

Highlights Shuai Zhang vs. Caty McNally Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Shuai Zhang vs. Sofia Kenin – stats

Zhang will take on Kenin in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Shuai Zhang and Sofia Kenin square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Zhang won 6-2 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Indian Wells back in 2018.

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Polona HercogHercog (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Nao HibinoHibino (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Petra MarticMartic (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ann LiLi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-2) – 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
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-3 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
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Arantxa RusRus (7-6(3) 6-2) – See score progression

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