Qinwen Zheng rolls over Jaqueline Cristian 6-1 6-1 in the quarter in Palermo on Friday after playing an impressive match to square off with Diane Parry in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 12 minutes. The Chinese won this tournament once in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Jaqueline Cristian Palermo Ladies Open – Palermo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Zheng scored 56 points vs. Cristian’s 27.
Zheng
The Chinese served pretty well to win 84% of the points (16/19) behind her first serve, and she won 68% points (13/19) on her second serve. The Chinese won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points since she converted only 38% (5/13) of the procured opportunities.
Cristian
On the other side, Jaqueline wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Cristian is 1-2 for Jaqueline.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Diane Parry – stats
Zheng will face Parry in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Qinwen Zheng and Diane Parry fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Zheng won 7-5 3-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in Palermo back in 2023.
Live score progression and stats
Zheng was far too good to concede just 1 game before breaking the Romanian 3 times and win the set 6-1.
Qinwen failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 40.
Cristian was outplayed in the last 7 games of the set when the game count went from 0-1 to 6-1.
Zheng converted 30% of her break points (3/10). She had 10 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 5th (3-1 0-40) and the 7th game (5-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Zheng didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 55 points. Qinwen was the winner of the set after clinching 15 points more than the Romanian (35-20). The Chinese lost 8 points on serve (17-8). On the losing side, the Romanian conceded 18 points on serve (12-18).
Zheng had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Jaqueline Cristian in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, there was more to do for Zheng to win the set because Cristian managed to break back in the 4th (1-3) game. Zheng kept her cool to break Cristian in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Zheng converted 100% of her break points (3/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 0-40). On the other side, Zheng didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 28 points. The Chinese was the one to win the set after conquering 14 more points than Jaqueline (21-7). Zheng was astonishing on serve to drop just 1 point during her serving games (12-1). In addition, on the other side, the Romanian conceded 9 points on serve (6-9).
Tennis Scores in Palermo
- Diane ParryParry – Chloe PaquetPaquet (7-5 1-6 6-4)
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Ann LiLi (6-3 6-4)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Astra SharmaSharma (7-65 7-66)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-1 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Diane ParryParry (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (2-1) – H2H details and stats