Qinwen Zheng hustles Jaqueline Cristian 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Wuhan on Wednesday. Zheng will try to keep the momentum against Leylah Annie Fernandez in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 42 minutes. This will be her best result in this tournament. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the qualifications in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Jaqueline Cristian Wuhan Open – Wuhan
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Zheng scored 68 points vs. Cristian’s 50.
Zheng
Qinwen served extremely well to win 83% of the points (24/29) behind her first serve, and she won 52% points (12/23) on her second serve. Qinwen was pretty effective at converting 57% of the break points that she conquered (4/7).
Cristian
On the other side, Cristian was struggling when converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Cristian is 2-2.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez – stats
Zheng will play Annie Fernandez in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Qinwen Zheng and Leylah Annie Fernandez face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Annie Fernandez (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Annie Fernandez won 7-5 6-3 in the 3rd round in Doha back in February 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Qinwen in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Cristian and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking Jaqueline in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Romanian had no answers in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-2 to 6-2.
Qinwen converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Cristian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th game (2-5 30-40).
They played 56 points. Qinwen conquered the set after winning 8 points more than Cristian (32-24). Qinwen dropped 7 points on serve (17-7). On the losing side, Jaqueline conceded 15 points on serve (17-15).
Zheng won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Zheng broke back in the 5th (2-3) and in the 7th (4-3) game to conquer the set 6-4.
There was a pivotal moment in this set when the Chinese won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to bring the scoreline from 1-3 to 5-3.
The Chinese converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (1-3 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). Also, on the other side, Jaqueline converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 4th game (2-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 62 points. Qinwen was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than Cristian (36-26). Zheng surrendered 9 points on serve (19-9). On the other side, Jaqueline conceded 17 points on serve (17-17).
Tennis Scores in Wuhan
- Xinyu WangWang – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (4-6 6-2 6-4)
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Emma NavarroNavarro (6-4 3-6 6-3)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-2 6-4)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (5-2 ret.)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-2 5-7 7-64)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Bernarda PeraPera (6-4 1-6 6-1)
- Erika AndreevaAndreeva – Mirra AndreevaAndreeva (6-3 6-1)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-2 2-0 ret.)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Donna VekicVekic (6-4 3-6 6-4)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-4)
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-3 7-5)
- Cori GauffGauff – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-2)
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-1 6-4)
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-4 6-72 6-1)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (w/o)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Yue YuanYuan (6-4 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Magdalena FrechFrech (3-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Marta KostyukKostyuk (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Magda LinetteLinette – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-4) – H2H details and stats
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-0) – H2H details and stats