Sofia Kenin stuns Xinyu Wang 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to square off with Clara Tauson in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this competition. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2022. Here you can see her previous results at this event.
Sofia added to her prize money $ 3,770 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 13,590 after this win. If she wins the next match, the American will add $ 11,320 to her earnings to get in total $ 24,910 in total.
Highlights Sofia Kenin vs. Xinyu Wang Toray Pan Pacific Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Kenin scored 71 points vs. Wang’s 49.
Kenin
Sofia served extremely well to win 83% of the points (30/36) behind her first serve, and she won 58% points (7/12) on her second serve. Kenin won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points after she converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Wang
On the other side, Xin Yu wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Kenin and Wang is 4-0 for Sofia.
Draw and next match H2H: Sofia Kenin vs. Clara Tauson – stats
Kenin will take on Tauson in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Sofia Kenin and Clara Tauson fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tauson (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tauson won 6-2 7-5 in the 3rd round in Paris back in May 2024.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Priscilla HonHon (6-1 6-4)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Xinyu WangWang (6-1 6-4)
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-3 6-3)
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Mika StojsavljevicStojsavljevic (6-4 6-77 7-66)
- Sayaka IshiiIshii – Sara SaitoSaito (6-1 6-1)
- Clara TausonTauson – Nao HibinoHibino (6-2 6-3)
- Kyoka OkamuraOkamura – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (7-64 6-3)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (5-7 6-2 5-2 ret.)
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Mai HontamaHontama (6-1 7-64)
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi (7-5 6-3)
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-6 6-4 6-3)
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-63 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Sofia KeninKenin – Clara TausonTauson (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-0) – H2H details and stats