Barbora Krejcikova gets the better of Yexin Ma 7-6(5) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Ningbo on Thursday. Krejcikova will play against Mirra Andreeva in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 56 minutes.
Highlights Barbora Krejcikova vs. Yexin Ma Ningbo Open – Ningbo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:56
At the end of the match, the Czech scored 79 points vs. Yexin’s 70.
Krejcikova
Barbora won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points after she converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.
Ma
On the other side, Yexin was effective at converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (3/6). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Krejcikova and Ma is 1-0 for Barbora.
Draw and next match H2H: Barbora Krejcikova vs. Mirra Andreeva – stats
Krejcikova will face Andreeva in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Barbora Krejcikova and Mirra Andreeva clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Andreeva (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Krejcikova won 4-6 6-3 6-2 in the 4th round in Melbourne back in January 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Krejcikova had a favorable start in this set after breaking Yexin Ma in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, there was more to do for Barbora to win the set because Ma succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The Czech maintained her cool to break Yexin in the 12th (6-6) game before winning the set (7-6).
Barbora converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 12th (5-6 15-40) and the 14th game (7-5 30-40 and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Ma converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A).
They played 86 points. This set was so close that, Barbora won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. The Czech dropped 21 points on serve (27-21). On the losing side, Yexin conceded 16 points on serve (22-16).
Krejcikova had a strong start of this set after breaking Yexin Ma in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, Barbora managed to stage a great comeback to break the Chinese in the 7th (4-3) gamein the 9th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Yexin was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-3 to 6-3.
The Czech converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 7th (3-3 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). Also, on the other side, Ma converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A) and the 4th game (1-2 30-40).
They played 63 points. The Czech was the winner of the set after clinching 7 more points than Yexin (35-28). The Czech surrendered 12 points on serve (18-12). Regarding the other side of the net, Yexin conceded 17 points on serve (16-17).
Tennis Scores in Ningbo
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Yexin MaMa (7-65 6-3)
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-62 7-5)
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Xiyu WangWang (6-74 6-1 6-2)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch (6-0 6-4)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Ella SeidelSeidel (6-4 6-4)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-6 6-3 6-2)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Yue YuanYuan (6-3 6-3)
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