TENNIS SCORES. Petkovic upsets Zhang in the 1st round of the Bronx Open

Andrea Petkovic shocks Shuai Zhang 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in New York on Monday. Petkovic will square off with Camila Giorgi in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Andrea won the set after she broke the Chinese in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Zhang tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Anyhow, Petkovic didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Petkovic had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Zhang in the 1^st 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 4^th (1-3) and in the 6^th (3-3) game. The German kept her focus to break the Chinese in the 9^th (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 2^nd round.

This will be the 6^th 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 1^st 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

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• 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