Yulia Putintseva powers past Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-1 in the 2nd round in Melbourne on Thursday after playing a fantastic match to play Daria Kasatkina in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 2 minutes. This run will match her most significant achievement in this event. Here you can see her history at this event.

Melbourne
Putintseva's Record

Putintseva added to her prize money $ 90,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 290,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Kazakhstani will add $ 130,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 420,000 in total.

Highlights Yulia Putintseva vs. Shuai Zhang Australian Open – Melbourne

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Putintseva
Zhang
6-2 6-1
1h:02
61
61
Total points
34
34
18
18
Winners
18
18
30%
30%
Ratio Winners
53%
53%
5
5
Unforced
32
32
14%
14%
Ratio Unforced
86%
86%
1/2
1/2
Net Approaches
9/17
9/17
50%
50%
Perc
53%
53%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
0
0
1
1
Double Faults
0
0
58%
58%
1st in
62%
62%
78%
78%
1st won
53%
53%
18/23
18/23
1st won
18/34
18/34
59%
59%
2nd won
19%
19%
10/17
10/17
2nd won
4/21
4/21
154
154
Fastest serve
153
153
139
139
AVG 1st Serve
145
145
125
125
AVG 2nd Serve
129
129
-- Break Points --
6/9
6/9
Total
1/1
1/1
67%
67%
Won
100%
100%
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At the end of the match, the Kazakhstani scored 61 points vs. Zhang’s 34.

Putintseva

The Kazakhstani served exceptionally well to win 78% of the points (18/23) behind her first serve, and she won 59% points (10/17) on her second serve. The Kazakhstani was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that she conquered (6/9).

Zhang

On the other side, Zhang was fantastic in converting the only break point that she converted. However, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Putintseva and Zhang is 6-2 for Yulia.

Draw and next match H2H: Yulia Putintseva vs. Daria Kasatkina – stats

Putintseva will compete against Kasatkina in the 3rd round.

This will be the 4th time that Yulia Putintseva and Daria Kasatkina face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Kasatkina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Kasatkina won 6-4 1-6 7-66 in the quarter in Ningbo back in 2024.

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
Putintseva 6-2
PutintsevaZhang
6
2
0
15
0
30
15
30
15
40
30
40
40
40
40
A
40
40
40
A
40
40
A
40
PutintsevaZhang
6
2
15
0
15
15
30
15
40
15
40
30
40
40
A
40
40
40
A
40
PutintsevaZhang
5
2
15
0
15
15
30
15
30
30
30
40
PutintsevaZhang
5
1
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
30
30
40
PutintsevaZhang
5
0
15
0
30
0
40
0
40
15
PutintsevaZhang
4
0
15
0
15
15
30
15
40
15
40
30
PutintsevaZhang
3
0
15
0
30
0
40
0
PutintsevaZhang
2
0
15
0
30
0
40
0
40
15
PutintsevaZhang
1
0
15
0
30
0
30
15
40
15
40
30
40
40
A
40

Putintseva conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Shuai Zhang in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Yulia to win the set because Zhang found the way to break back in the 6th (1-5) game.

The Kazakhstani failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 30.

One of the most important stints of the set was when Yulia won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the score from 0-0 to 5-0.

Yulia converted 42% of her break points (3/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 3rd (2-0 0-40), the 5th (4-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 9th game (6-1 40-A). On the other side, Zhang was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 6th game (0-5 30-40).

They contested 62 points. Putintseva was the winner of the set after clinching 14 points more than the Chinese (38-24). The Kazakhstani conceded 11 points on serve (16-11). In addition, on the other side, Zhang conceded 22 points on serve (13-22).

2nd Set -
Putintseva 6-1
PutintsevaZhang
6
1
15
0
30
0
30
15
30
30
40
30
PutintsevaZhang
5
1
0
15
15
15
30
15
40
15
PutintsevaZhang
4
1
15
0
15
15
15
30
30
30
30
40
40
40
40
A
PutintsevaZhang
4
0
15
0
30
0
40
0
PutintsevaZhang
3
0
15
0
30
0
30
15
30
30
40
30
PutintsevaZhang
2
0
15
0
30
0
40
0

Putintseva had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Shuai Zhang in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Putintseva managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Zhang in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.

Yulia was unerring in converting all her break points in the 2nd (2-0 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40). On the other side, Putintseva didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 33 points. Putintseva was the one to win the set after conquering 13 more points than the Chinese (23-10). The Kazakhstani was untouchable on serve to drop only 1 point during her serving games (12-1). on the other side of the net, Shuai conceded 11 points on serve (9-11).

1st
Putintseva
Zhang
6-2
6
2
5
2
5
1
5
0
4
0
3
0
2
0
1
0
2nd
Putintseva
Zhang
6-1
6
1
5
1
4
1
4
0
3
0
2
0
1
0

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