Qinwen Zheng makes light work of Nadia Podoroska 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Beijing on Monday after playing a fantastic match to deal with Amanda Anisimova in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.
Zheng added to her prize money $ 41,900 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 101,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 84,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 185,000 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Nadia Podoroska China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Qinwen scored 62 points vs. Podoroska’s 41.
Zheng
The Chinese served exceptionally well to win 90% of the points (27/30) behind her first serve, and she won 57% points (13/23) on her second serve. The Chinese won this match even if she was struggling to find the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Podoroska
On the other side, Nadia wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Zheng and Podoroska is 2-0 for Qinwen.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Amanda Anisimova – stats
Zheng will fight against Anisimova in the 4th round.
This will be the 2nd time that Qinwen Zheng and Amanda Anisimova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zheng (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zheng won 4-6 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in New York back in August 2024.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Zheng conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before finally winning the set (6-3).
The Chinese converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th game (2-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Podoroska was unable to convert any of her 5 break points. She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (1-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 64 points. Zheng was the winner of the set after clinching 4 points more than Podoroska (34-30). Zheng dropped 11 points on serve (24-11). On the other side, Nadia conceded 10 points on serve (19-10).
Zheng in this set didn’t concede much to Nadia and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking Nadia in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Argentine was eclipsed in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 1-2 to 6-2.
Zheng converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (2-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, the Chinese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 39 points. The Chinese was the winner of the set after clinching 17 more points than the Argentine (28-11). Qinwen was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (16-2). In addition, on the other side, Nadia conceded 12 points on serve (9-12).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-3 6-2)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-4 6-4)
- Madison KeysKeys – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-3 6-3)
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-1 6-3)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-2 6-2)
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (7-61 6-4)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Peyton StearnsStearns (3-6 6-3 3-1 ret.)
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-3 6-2)
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Elise MertensMertens (4-6 6-2 6-2)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-0)
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (0-6 6-3 6-4)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-79 6-1 6-2)
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (7-5 7-5)
- Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-3 6-1)
- Cori GauffGauff – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-5 6-2)
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Madison KeysKeys (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Magda LinetteLinette – (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Cori GauffGauff (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-3) – H2H details and stats