
Qinwen Zheng sweeps aside Olga Danilovic 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Rome on Friday after playing an impressive match to play Magdalena Frech in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes. Her best achievement in this competition was reaching the quarter in 2023 and 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Qinwen added to her prize money € 17,098 after conquering this match. She has already won € 38,313 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add € 27,797 to her earnings to get in total € 66,110 in total.
Highlights Qinwen Zheng vs. Olga Danilovic Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Qinwen scored 66 points vs. the Serbian’s 49.
Zheng
Zheng served extremely well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 45% points (10/22) on her second serve. The Chinese didn’t lose the focus when converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9).
Danilovic
On the other side, Olga was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Danilovic is 2-0 for Qinwen.
Draw and next match H2H: Qinwen Zheng vs. Magdalena Frech – stats
Zheng will take on Frech in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Qinwen Zheng and Magdalena Frech clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Zheng and Frech (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Zheng won 6-1 7-5 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati back in 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Zheng started the set in the best possible way after breaking Olga Danilovic in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. The Chinese reinforced her lead after breaking Olga in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
The Serbian surrendered the 4th game (4-0) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve. Certainly, a key moment was when Zheng won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to bring the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
Qinwen converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 40-A) and the 8th game (6-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Danilovic was unable to convert any of her 4 break points. She had 4 break points opportunities in the 7th game (1-5 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 66 points. Qinwen was the winner of the set after clinching 14 points more than Danilovic (40-26). Qinwen conceded 10 points on serve (20-10). Regarding the other side of the net, Danilovic conceded 20 points on serve (16-20).
Zheng won the set after she broke Danilovic in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (3-2) game. The Serbian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Yet, Qinwen didn’t make any concession anymore to win the set 6-4.
Qinwen was on the money in converting all her break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 5th game (2-2 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, the Serbian was unerring in converting all her break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 4th game (1-2 15-40).
They contested 49 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Chinese won just 3 points more than Danilovic (26-23). Qinwen surrendered 10 points on serve (15-10). On the other side, Danilovic conceded 11 points on serve (13-11).
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova (6-1 6-3)
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-2 6-2)
- Clara TausonTauson – Katie VolynetsVolynets (7-5 4-1 ret.)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Emiliana ArangoArango (6-2 6-4)
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-4 6-0)
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (7-5 6-4)
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 3-6 6-2)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-2 6-2)
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Olga DanilovicDanilovic (6-1 6-4)
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (7-65 7-5)
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-4 6-2)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Eva LysLys (7-63 6-2)
- Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 6-0)
- Magda LinetteLinette – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-6 6-4 6-1)
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Sonay KartalKartal (6-4 6-2)
- Cori GauffGauff – Victoria MbokoMboko (3-6 6-2 6-1)
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-2 6-2)
- Elise MertensMertens – Suzan LamensLamens (3-6 6-2 6-3)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-2)
- Madison KeysKeys – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (7-64 6-1)
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (7-62 7-5)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-1 6-0)
- Peyton StearnsStearns – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-2 6-3)
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (2-6 7-5 6-1)
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Petra KvitovaKvitova (w/o)
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-0 6-0)
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (1-6 6-4 6-3)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro (6-4 7-62)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Lulu SunSun (6-4 6-3)
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (6-3 2-6 6-4)
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-3 6-3)
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-0 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Sofia KeninKenin (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (3-0) – H2H details and stats
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Qinwen ZhengZheng (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Magda LinetteLinette (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Emma RaducanuRaducanu – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Clara TausonTauson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Jessica PegulaPegula (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Madison KeysKeys – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Naomi OsakaOsaka (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-7) – H2H details and stats