Aryna Sabalenka topples Katie Boulter 7-5 7-6(2) in the 2nd round in Beijing on Tuesday. Sabalenka is going to play against Jasmine Paolini in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 32 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the quarter in 2018. Here you can see her history at this event.
Sabalenka added to her prize money $ 40,500 after winning this match. She has already won $ 92,500 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Belarussian will add $ 92,518 to her earnings to get in total $ 185,018 in total.
Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs. Katie Boulter China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:32
At the end of the match, Aryna scored 107 points vs. the Brit’s 95.
Sabalenka
Sabalenka won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 25% (3/12) of the procured opportunities.
Boulter
On the other side, Boulter was battling in converting her break points (only 17% – 2/12). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Sabalenka and Boulter is 3-0 for Aryna.
Draw and next match H2H: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Jasmine Paolini – stats
Sabalenka will compete against Paolini in the 3rd round.
This will be the 4th time that Aryna Sabalenka and Jasmine Paolini play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Paolini (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Paolini won 2-6 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Sabalenka conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Aryna broke back in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th game to win the set 7-5.
The Belarussian failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 15.
The Brit was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 3-5 to 7-5.
The Belarussian converted 10% of her break points (1/10). She had 10 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-2 30-40), the 10th (4-5 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Boulter converted 10% of her break points (1/10). She had her opportunities in the 7th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 109 points. The Belarussian was the winner of the set after clinching 9 more points than Boulter (59-50). The Belarussian surrendered 20 points on serve (33-20). Regarding the other side of the net, the Brit conceded 26 points on serve (30-26).
Aryna clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 9th (4-5) game, Sabalenka broke back in the 10th (5-5) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that she won 7-2.
Tiebreak
Sabalenka won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (3-2), 6th (4-2) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, the Brit won a minibreak in the 3rd (2-1) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
Aryna converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 10th game (4-5 30-40 and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Katie converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 8th game (4-4 30-40).
They played 93 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Belarussian won just 3 points more than the Brit (48-45). The Belarussian dropped 19 points on serve (27-19). On the losing side, Boulter conceded 21 points on serve (26-21).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-5 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 5-7 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Tatjana MariaMaria (7-5 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (3-6 6-0 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-72 6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Ons JabeurJabeur (7-65 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Xinyu WangWang – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Daria SavilleSaville (6-2 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Jennifer BradyBrady (3-1 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Linda NoskovaNoskova (w/o) – Stats and score progression
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yue YuanYuan (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Maria SakkariSakkari – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (3-0) – H2H details and stats
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Cori GauffGauff (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Magda LinetteLinette – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – H2H details and stats
