Lin Zhu grounds Magda Linette 6-3 6-0 in the 2nd round in Birmingham on Wednesday after playing a tremendous match. The match lasted 1 hour and 4 minutes.
Zhu added to her prize money $ 2,498 after winning this match. She has already won $ 6,418 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 4,858 to her earnings to get in total $ 11,276 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Lin scored 56 points vs. Linette’s 29.
Zhu
Lin served extremely well to win 84% of the points (21/25) behind her first serve, and she won 67% points (8/12) on her second serve. Lin was stunning in converting all the break points (5/5).
Linette
On the other side, the Pole wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Zhu and Linette is 2-0 for Lin.
Live score progression and stats
Zhu won the set after she broke Magda 5 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 3rd (2-1), in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game.
They contested 56 points. The Chinese conquered the set after winning 28 more points than Magda (42-14
). Lin was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (24-3). On the other side, the Pole conceded 18 points on serve (11-18).Linette wasn’t able to offer any resistance in this set and the Chinese won the set 6-0
.They played 24 points. The Chinese was the winner of the set after clinching 18 points more than Linette (21-3). The Chinese was absolutely perfect on serve to drop only 1 point during her serving games (8-1). On the other side, Linette conceded 13 points on serve (2-13).
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