Andrea Petkovic shocks Shuai Zhang 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in New York on Monday. Petkovic will square off with Camila Giorgi in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Andrea won the set after she broke the Chinese in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Zhang tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Anyhow, Petkovic didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-3.
2nd set.
Petkovic had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Zhang in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. However, that was not enough for Andrea to win the set since Shuai managed to break back in the 4th (1-3) and in the 6th (3-3) game. The German kept her focus to break the Chinese in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).
However also the Chinese won 4 consecutive games from 0-3 to 4-3
Statistics
After this match, the head to head between Petkovic and Zhang is 3-0 for Andrea.
Next Match: Andrea Petkovic vs. Camila Giorgi – stats
Petkovic will play Giorgi in the 2nd round.
This will be the 6th time that Andrea Petkovic and Camila Giorgi play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Giorgi (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.
The last time that they played, Petkovic won 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in Dubai back in 2016.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Shuai ZhangShuai (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alize CornetAlize – Kateryna KozlovaKateryna (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Bernarda PeraBernarda – Veronika KudermetovaVeronika (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuLin – Yulia PutintsevaYulia (7-6(2) 6-4) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Kristie AhnKristie – Jil TeichmannJil (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra – Polona HercogPolona (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Alison Van UytvanckAlison (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Fiona FerroFiona – Viktorija GolubicViktorija (1-0) – See H2H details
- Laura SiegemundLaura – Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela (0-0) – See H2H details
- Coco VandewegheCoco – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
- Lin ZhuLin – Yulia PutintsevaYulia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kristie AhnKristie – Jil TeichmannJil (0-0) – See H2H details
- Magda LinetteMagda – Kaia KanepiKaia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Polona HercogPolona – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (1-1) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckAlison – Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Camila GiorgiCamila (2-3) – See H2H details
- Bernarda PeraBernarda – Barbora StrycovaBarbora (0-1) – See H2H details