Sloane Stephens brushes past Sara Errani 6-3 6-0 in the quarter in Romagna Open on Thursday after playing a superlative match to fight against Qiang Wang in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Stephens added to her prize money € 3,468 after winning this match. She has won already € 8,145 as of now in this tournament. If she wins the next match, Stephens will add € 5,079 to her earnings to get in total € 13,224.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Stephens scored 68 points vs. the Italian’s 44.
Stephens
Sloane won this match even if she had a tough time converting her break points as she converted only 43% (6/14) of the procured opportunities.
Errani
On the other side, the Italian wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 14% – 1/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Stephens and Errani is 2-1 for Sloane.
Draw and next match H2H: Sloane Stephens vs. Qiang Wang – stats
Stephens will come up against Wang in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Sloane Stephens and Qiang Wang face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Wang (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Wang won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Wuhan back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Stephens had a racing start in this set after breaking Wang in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for the American to win the set because the Italian succeeded in breaking back in the 4th
(2-2) game. The American maintained her focus to break the Italian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.They played 71 points. Sloane conquered the set after winning 9 points more than Errani (40-31). Sloane surrendered 12 points on serve (18-12). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 22 points on serve (19-22
).The Italian had to weaponry to counter the opposition and the American won the set 6-0.
The American converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40), the 4th (3-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (5-0 0-40). On the other side, Sara was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 5th game (0-4 40-A).
They contested 44 points. The American won 16 points more than the Italian (30-14). Stephens surrendered 10 points on serve (17-10). Regarding the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 13 points on serve (4-13).
Tennis Scores in Parma
- Sloane StephensStephens – Sara ErraniErrani (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Petra MarticMartic (7-64 3-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Sloane StephensStephens – Qiang WangWang (0-2) – H2H details and stats