Qinwen Zheng routs Oceane Dodin 6-0 6-3 in the 4th round in Melbourne on Monday after playing an extraordinary match to deal with Anna Kalinskaya in the quarter. The match lasted just 59 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this tournament. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Qinwen added to her prize money $ 225,000 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 600,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Qinwen will add $ 390,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 990,000 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Oceane Dodin Australian Open – Melbourne
Zheng’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Qinwen scored 53 points vs. the French player’s 34.
Zheng
Qinwen served pretty well to win 86% of the points (19/22) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 46% points (13/28) on her second serve. The Chinese was effective at converting 71% of the break points that she conquered (5/7).
Dodin
On the other side, Dodin was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (1/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Zheng and Dodin is 3-1 for Qinwen.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Anna Kalinskaya – stats
Zheng will compete against Kalinskaya in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Qinwen Zheng and Anna Kalinskaya clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kalinskaya (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kalinskaya won 6-3 2-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Guadalajara back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much story in this set since Zheng conceded no games to Oceane before winning the set 6-0.
Zheng failed to serve out the set when leading 6-0 to be broken at 15.
Zheng converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40), the 4th (3-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (5-0 30-40). On the other side, Dodin wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (0-2 30-40).
They contested 42 points. The Chinese won 18 more points than the French player (30-12). Qinwen conceded 7 points on serve (18-7). on the other side of the court, Dodin conceded 12 points on serve (5-12).
The Chinese won the set after she broke Dodin in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. The French player tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Yet, Qinwen stayed solid to conquer the set 6-3.
The Chinese was unerring in converting all her break points in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 5th game (3-2 15-40). On the other side, Oceane was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th game (1-3 15-40).
They played 45 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally Qinwen won barely 1 point more than the French player (23-22). Zheng conceded 11 points on serve (14-11). on the other side of the net, the French player conceded 9 points on serve (11-9).
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-66 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Oceane DodinDodin (6-0 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (3-0 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Maria TimofeevaTimofeeva (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Qinwen ZhengZheng (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Cori GauffGauff (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-5) – H2H details and stats