TENNIS SCORES. Lin Zhu upsets Putintseva in the 1st round of the Bronx Open

Lin Zhu shocks Yulia Putintseva 7-6² 6-4 in the 1^st round in New York on Monday. Zhu will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Alize Cornet in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Zhu won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, Zhu broke back in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 2.

2^nd set.

Zhu conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Putintseva in the 1^st game (1-0). However, that was not enough for the Chinese to win the set because Yulia succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. The Chinese maintained her focus to break Yulia in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (5-4) game before managing to win the set (6-4).

Zhu failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 0.

Yulia was powerless in the last 4 games of the set (from 4-4 to 6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Lin scored 79 points vs. Putintseva’s 70 points.

Zhu won this match even if she had a tough time in converting her break points as she converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Putintseva was far from perfect in converting her break points because she converted only 43% of her break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Zhu and Putintseva is 1-0 for Lin.

Next Match: Lin Zhu vs. Alize Cornet – stats

Zhu will square off with Cornet in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Lin Zhu and Alize Cornet since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in New York

• Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteMagda – Kaia KanepiKaia (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Kristie AhnKristie – Jil TeichmannJil (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Alison Van UytvanckAlison (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuLin – Yulia PutintsevaYulia (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Shuai ZhangShuai (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra – Polona HercogPolona (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFiona – Viktorija GolubicViktorija (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Anna BlinkovaAnna – Coco VandewegheCoco (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Laura SiegemundLaura (3-6 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Veronika KudermetovaVeronika (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Alize CornetAlize – Kateryna KozlovaKateryna (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Qiang WangQiang – Fiona FerroFiona (2-1) – See H2H details
• Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicAndrea – Camila GiorgiCamila (2-3) – See H2H details
• Alize CornetAlize – Lin ZhuLin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Kristie AhnKristie (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteMagda – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (0-2) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Barbora StrycovaBarbora (0-1) – See H2H details