Cori Gauff overcomes Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Beijing on Monday. Gauff will seek to keep on going in this event against Petra Martic in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 22 minutes.
Coco added to her prize money $ 19,675 after winning this match. She has already won $ 52,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the American will add $ 40,500 to her earnings to get in total $ 92,500 in total.
Highlights Cori Gauff vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Coco scored 71 points vs. Ekaterina’s 59.
Gauff
Coco was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that she procured (4/8).
Alexandrova
On the other side, the Russian was struggling when converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Gauff and Alexandrova is 2-1 for Coco.
Draw and next match H2H: Cori Gauff vs. Petra Martic – stats
Gauff will take on Martic in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Cori Gauff and Petra Martic clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gauff (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Gauff won 5-7 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Adelaide back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Gauff enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Ekaterina Alexandrova in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. However, that wasn’t sufficient for Gauff to win the set as Alexandrova managed to break back in the 5th (1-4) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Coco maintained her cool to break Ekaterina in the 12th (7-5) game.
Gauff failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 40.
There was an important spell in this set when Coco won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to convert the score from 0-0 to 4-0. Nonetheless also Ekaterina won 4 consecutive games from 0-4 to 4-4
Gauff converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 4th (3-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 0-40 and 15-40). Also, on the other side, the Russian converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had her opportunities in the 5th (0-4 40-A), the 7th (2-4 0-40 and 15-40) and the 13th game (4-7 30-40).
They contested 82 points. The American won 8 more points than Alexandrova (45-37). Coco lost 20 points on serve (27-20). on the other side of the court, the Russian conceded 18 points on serve (17-18).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Coco snatched in the 6th
game (4-2) prior to finally winning the set (6-3).The American was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (3-2 30-40). On the other side, Alexandrova wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2nd game (1-1 30-40).
They played 48 points. Gauff won 4 more points than Ekaterina (26-22). Gauff surrendered 7 points on serve (17-7). In addition, on the other side, Ekaterina conceded 9 points on serve (15-9).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
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- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Mayar SherifSherif (1-6 6-4 7-68) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
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- Maria SakkariSakkari – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
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- Petra MarticMartic – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H details and stats
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