Tenacious Anna Bondar survives Guo in the 1st round to play vs Liu at the Guangzhou Open – GUANGZHOU RESULTS

Anna Bondar outlasts Hanyu Guo 6-3 3-6 7-6(4) in the 1^st round in Guangzhou on Tuesday after winning a huge battle. Bondar will have to play Claire Liu in the 2^nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 34 minutes. This will be her most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. Here you can see her previous results at this event.

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

At the end of the match, Anna scored 96 points vs. Guo’s 91.

Bondar

Bondar was pretty good at converting 75% of the break points that she procured (6/8).

Guo

On the other side, Hanyu was pretty good at converting 60% of the break points that she conquered points (6/10). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Bondar and Guo is 1-0 for Anna.

Draw and next match H2H: Anna Bondar vs. Claire Liu – stats

Bondar will square off with Liu in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Anna Bondar and Claire Liu since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

The last time that they fought against each other, Liu won w/o in the semifinal in Rabat back in 2022.

Live score progression and stats

Bondar had a favorable start in this set after breaking Hanyu Guo in the 1^st

game (1-0). However, that wasn’t sufficient for Bondar to win the set as Guo managed to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. The Hungarian maintained her focus to break Guo in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

Anna failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 0.

Guo was eclipsed in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-3 to 6-3.

Anna converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1^st (0-0 30-40), the 7^th (3-3 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9^th game (5-3 15-40). Also, on the other side, Hanyu converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 4^th (1-2 30-40), the 8^th (3-4 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10^th game (2-6 0-40).

They played 63 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Hungarian won just 3 points more than the Chinese (33-30). The Hungarian surrendered 15 points on serve (17-15). On the losing side, the Chinese conceded 16 points on serve (15-16).

Bondar had a strong start of this set after breaking Hanyu Guo in the 2^nd game (2-0). However, Hanyu managed to stage a great comeback to break Anna 3 times in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3) gamein the 9^th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Hanyu failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 30.

Bondar was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 3-3 to 6-3.

Guo was spot on in converting all her break points in the 5^th (2-2 40-A), the 7^th (3-3 30-40) and the 9^th game (5-3 0-40 and 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, Anna was exemplary in converting all her break points in the 4^th (1-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 6^th game (2-3 15-40).

They contested 49 points. Guo was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Bondar (27-22). Hanyu lost 12 points on serve (14-12). On the other side, Anna conceded 13 points on serve (10-13).

The Hungarian clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 4^th

(1-3) game, Bondar broke back in the 5^th (2-3) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that she won 7-4.

Tiebreak

Anna won 5 minibreaks in the 3^rd (1-2), 4^th (2-2), 7^th (4-3), 8^th (5-3) and 11^th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Chinese won 4 minibreaks in the 1^st (1-0), 2^nd (2-0), 6^th (3-3) and 10^th (4-6) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4

Anna was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5^th game (1-3 30-40). On the other side, Hanyu converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 4^th game (2-1 40-A and 40-A).

They contested 75 points. Anna was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than Guo (40-35). The Hungarian dropped 13 points on serve (29-13). Regarding the other side of the net, Hanyu conceded 11 points on serve (22-11).

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