Alejandro Davidovich Fokina powers past Yi Zhou 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Beijing on Thursday after playing an impressive match to clash against Alexander Zverev in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Highlights Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Yi Zhou China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Alejandro scored 66 points vs. Zhou’s 41.
Davidovich Fokina
Davidovich Fokina served very well to win 82% of the points (18/22) behind his first serve, and he won 81% points (13/16) on his second serve. Davidovich Fokina was effective at converting 56% of the break points that he conquered (5/9).
Zhou
On the other side, Zhou was fantastic in converting the only break point that he converted. Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Davidovich Fokina and Zhou is 1-0 for Alejandro.
Draw and next match H2H: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Alexander Zverev – stats
Davidovich Fokina will take on Zverev in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Alexander Zverev square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Zverev (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Davidovich Fokina won 6-1 6-2 in the 2nd round in Toronto back in August 2023.
Live score progression and stats
The Spaniard in this set was more solid than Yi and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking Zhou in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when the Spaniard won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.
The Spaniard converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40), the 5th (3-1 40-A) and the 9th game (6-1 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Spaniard didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 60 points. The Spaniard conquered the set after winning 14 points more than the Chinese (37-23). The Spaniard was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (16-2). Regarding the other side of the net, Yi conceded 21 points on serve (21-21).
Davidovich Fokina was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Yi Zhou in the 2nd game (2-0). However, the Spaniard was not done to come back to break the Chinese in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
The Chinese lost the 7th game (5-2) when he was serving and leading 40-0. Yi was dominated in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Davidovich Fokina converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Yi was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4th game (1-2 40-A).
They played 47 points. The Spaniard won 11 points more than the Chinese (29-18). Davidovich Fokina conceded 5 points on serve (15-5). On the losing side, Zhou conceded 14 points on serve (13-14).
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