Qinwen Zheng breezes past Jasmine Paolini 6-2 6-3 in the semifinal in Zhengzhou on Saturday after playing a superlative match to clash against Barbora Krejcikova in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
The Chinese added to her prize money $ 30,838 after winning this match. She has already won $ 74,161 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 45,989 to her earnings to get in total $ 120,150 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Jasmine Paolini Zhengzhou Open – Zhengzhou
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:15
At the end of the match, Qinwen scored 58 points vs. the Italian’s 44.
Zheng
The Chinese served exceptionally well to win 85% of the points (17/20) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 42% points (10/24) on her second serve. Zheng was pretty effective at converting 60% of the break points that she conquered (6/10).
Paolini
On the other side, Jasmine was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). Yet, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this encounter, the head to head between Zheng and Paolini is 2-0 for Qinwen.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Barbora Krejcikova – stats
Zheng will play Krejcikova in the final.
There is no head to head record between Qinwen Zheng and Barbora Krejcikova since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Zheng was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Jasmine Paolini in the 1st game (1-0). Qinwen managed to boost her lead after breaking the Italian in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
Qinwen was on the money in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 5th (3-1 15-40) and the 9th game (6-1 15-40). On the other side, the Chinese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 45 points. Qinwen won 13 more points than Paolini (29-16). Zheng was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). on the other side of the court, Jasmine conceded 13 points on serve (12-13).
Qinwen won the set after she broke the Italian 3 times in the 5th (3-2), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Paolini tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Nonetheless, Qinwen kept the focus to win the set 6-3.
The Chinese failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 15.
There was an important spell in this set when the Chinese won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.
Qinwen converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 40-A), the 7th (4-2 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, Jasmine converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 8th game (2-5 15-40).
They played 57 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally the Chinese won barely 1 point more than Paolini (29-28). Qinwen conceded 13 points on serve (11-13). on the other side of the net, Jasmine conceded 18 points on serve (15-18).
Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H details and stats
