Qinwen Zheng dispatches Liudmila Samsonova 5-7 7-6(5) 6-3 in the 3rd round in Miami on Saturday. Zheng will have to play Anastasia Potapova in the 4th round. The epic lasted 3 hours and 7 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reach the 1st round in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Zheng added to her prize money $ 41,185 after winning this match. She has already won $ 96,955 after this win. If she wins the next match, Zheng will add $ 87,510 to her earnings to get in total $ 184,465 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Liudmila Samsonova Miami Open – Miami
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
3h:07
At the end of the match, Zheng scored 112 points vs. the Russian’s 102.
Zheng
Qinwen served pretty well to win 77% of the points (48/62) behind her first serve. Yet she won only 45% points (18/40) on her second serve. The Chinese fired 18 aces and she committed 6 double faults. Qinwen won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 33% (4/12) of the procured opportunities.
Samsonova
On the other side, Ludmilla wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 33% – 3/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Samsonova is 2-2.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Anastasia Potapova – stats
Zheng will take on Potapova in the 4th round.
This will be the 3rd time that Qinwen Zheng and Anastasia Potapova face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Zheng won 6-73 7-5 7-64 in the qualifications in Adelaide back in January 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Zheng had a great start in this set after breaking Liudmila Samsonova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, Samsonova managed to stage a great comeback to break Zheng in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Qinwen was completely wiped out in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 2-5 to 7-5.
Samsonova was unerring in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 3rd (1-3 30-40), the 8th (3-5 30-40), the 11th (5-5 40-A) and the 13th game (7-4 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Qinwen was on the money in converting all her break points in the 2nd (3-1 15-40), the 4th (3-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 94 points. This set was so close that, The Russian won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. The Russian dropped 17 points on serve (26-17). In addition, on the other side, Zheng conceded 21 points on serve (30-21).
The Chinese won the set after she broke Samsonova .
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Moreover, on the other side, the Chinese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 78 points. This set was so close that, The Chinese won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. The Chinese dropped 10 points on serve (27-10). on the other side of the court, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (29-12).
Zheng commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Liudmila Samsonova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, Qinwen found the way to come back to break Samsonova 3 times in the 5th (2-3), in the 7th (4-3) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Ludmilla was not able to offer any resistance in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 0-3 to 6-3.
Zheng converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-3 15-40 and 30-40), the 7th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, Samsonova converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 44 points. The Chinese was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than the Russian (27-17). Zheng conceded 8 points on serve (14-8). on the other side of the net, Samsonova conceded 13 points on serve (9-13).
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