Qiang Wang aces Anna Blinkova 0-6 6-1 6-4 in the quarter in New York on Thursday. Wang will engage against Camila Giorgi in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

This set was a no contest after Anna conceded no games to Wang before winning the set 6-0.

2nd set.

Wang took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Blinkova in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Qiang to win the set because the Russian succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd

(1-1) game. The Chinese maintained her cool to break Blinkova in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.

Anna was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

3rd set.

The Chinese won the set after she broke the Russian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Anna tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Nonetheless, the Chinese kept the focus before winning the set 6-4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 70 points vs. the Russian’s 61 points.

Wang was pretty focused in converting 60%

of the break points that she conquered (6/10). On the other side, Anna was pretty effective in converting 56% of the break points that she conquered points (5/9). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Wang and Blinkova is 1-0 for Qiang.

Next Match: Qiang Wang vs. Camila Giorgi – stats

Wang will take on Giorgi in the semifinal.

This will be the 3rd time that Qiang Wang and Camila Giorgi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Giorgi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Giorgi won 4-6 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Prague back in 2017.

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