Diana Shnaider breezes past Katie Boulter 6-1 6-2 in the final in Hong Kong on Sunday after playing a tremendous match to win her 4th career title, the 4th of this season. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes. She won this tournament after playing this event for the first time in her career.
Diana added $ 14,420 to her prize money after conquering this final. She has earned $ 35,250 in total after winning this tournament.
Highlights Diana Shnaider vs. Katie Boulter Hong Kong Tennis Open – Hong Kong
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:11
At the end of the match, Diana scored 63 points vs. Katie’s 36.
Shnaider
The Russian served very well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind her first serve, and she won 73% points (8/11) on her second serve. Diana won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points since she converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.
Boulter
On the other side, Boulter wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Shnaider and Boulter is 1-0 for Diana.
This was the 4th career title for Diana. She won the previous title in Budapest. (see list of titles and finals). Katie remains with 3rd titles after she conquered the tournament in Nottingham 2023, in San Diego 2024 and in Nottingham 2024. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
Shnaider came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Katie Boulter in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The Russian improved her lead after breaking Boulter in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Shnaider won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to bring the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
Shnaider converted 22% of her break points (2/9). She had 9 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40), the 4th (3-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (5-0 40-A) and the 8th game (6-0 40-A). On the other side, Shnaider didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 62 points. Shnaider was the winner of the set after clinching 14 more points than Katie (38-24). Shnaider surrendered 8 points on serve (17-8). In addition, on the other side, Katie conceded 21 points on serve (16-21).
Shnaider didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Katie Boulter in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. That break was enough for the Russian to win the set (6-2) since there were no other breaks anymore.
Shnaider won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 2-0 to .
Shnaider converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 0-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40). On the other side, the Russian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 37 points. Diana conquered the set after winning 13 points more than Katie (25-12). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). on the other side of the net, Katie conceded 9 points on serve (9-9).
