Saisai Zheng beats Natalija Kostic 7-66 6-0 in the 1st round in Hua Hin on Monday. Zheng will play En Shuo Liang or Xin Yu Wang in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Zheng overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Kostic in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Saisai to win the set since the Serbian managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 4th (3-1) game. Zheng kept her cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 6.
Yet also Natalija won 4 consecutive games from 0-1 to 4-1
2nd set.
Natalija didn’t manage to offer a meaningful resistance and Saisai won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 70 points vs. the Serbian’s 54 points.
Zheng was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10). On the other side, Natalija was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Kostic is 1-0 for Saisai.
Highlights Saisai Zheng vs. Natalija Kostic Thailand Open – Hua Hin
Next Match H2H: Saisai Zheng vs. En Shuo Liang or Xin Yu Wang – stats
Zheng will fight against either En Shuo Liang or Xin Yu Wang in the 2nd round. The head to head is 0-0 vs. En Shuo Liang and 0-0 vs. Xin Yu Wang.
There is no head to head record between Saisai Zheng and En Shuo Liang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
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