Qinwen Zheng motors past Moyuka Uchijima 7-5 6-0 in the 2nd round in Tokyo on Thursday after playing an impressive match to play Leylah Annie Fernandez in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the final in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Qinwen added to her prize money $ 11,320 after winning this match. She has already won $ 24,910 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 26,295 to her earnings to get in total $ 51,205 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Moyuka Uchijima Toray Pan Pacific Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:17
At the end of the match, Zheng scored 63 points vs. the Japanese’s 44.
Zheng
Qinwen served extremely well to win 85% of the points (23/27) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (13/26) on her second serve. Zheng was well focused in converting 63% of the break points that she procured (5/8).
Uchijima
On the other side, Moyuka was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Uchijima is 1-0 for Qinwen.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez – stats
Zheng will play Annie Fernandez in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Qinwen Zheng and Leylah Annie Fernandez fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Annie Fernandez (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Zheng won 5-7 6-3 6-0 in the 3rd round in Wuhan back in October 2024.
Live score progression and stats
The Chinese won the set after she broke Moyuka in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The Japanese tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Nonetheless, Zheng refused to give way to conquer the set 7-5.
Moyuka was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 4-5 to 7-5.
Qinwen converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 40-A), the 11th (5-5 15-40) and the 13th game (7-4 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Moyuka was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 4th game (1-2 15-40).
They contested 75 points. The Chinese was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than Uchijima (40-35). The Chinese lost 12 points on serve (22-12). Regarding the other side of the net, Uchijima conceded 18 points on serve (23-18).
Uchijima lost her way in this set and the Chinese won the set 6-0.
Qinwen converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (2-0 15-40) and the 5th game (4-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Japanese was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 32 points. Qinwen was the winner of the set after clinching 14 more points than Moyuka (23-9). The Chinese conceded 5 points on serve (14-5). on the other side of the court, Uchijima conceded 9 points on serve (4-9).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (7-5 6-0)
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (6-1 6-2)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Clara TausonTauson (6-78 6-4 7-66)
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Mccartney KesslerKessler (3-6 6-3 6-1)
- Sayaka IshiiIshii – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (4-6 6-2 6-3)
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (3-0 ret.)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-0 3-6 7-5)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-2 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Sofia KeninKenin – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H details and stats
