Wushuang Zheng stuns Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-3 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Jiujiang on Monday. Zheng will engage against Yulia Putintseva in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 4 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. Previously, the best she could do was reaching the 1st round in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Zheng added to her prize money $ 1,360 after winning this match. She has already won $ 4,470 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Chinese will add $ 2,350 to her earnings to get in total $ 6,820 in total.
Highlights Wushuang Zheng vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva Jiangxi Open – Jiujiang
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 78 points vs. Yulia’s 70.
Zheng
Zheng was effective when converting 50% of the break points that she procured (4/8).
Starodubtsewa
On the other side, the Ukrainian didn’t lose the focus when converting 75% of the break points that she conquered points (3/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Zheng and Starodubtsewa is 1-0 for Wushuang.
Draw and next match H2H: Wushuang Zheng vs. Yulia Putintseva – stats
Zheng will fight against Putintseva in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record
between Wushuang Zheng and Yulia Putintseva since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.Live score progression and stats
Zheng conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Yuliia Starodubtseva in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Wushuang was not done to come back to break Starodubtsewa in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
Yulia was powerless in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 3-3 to 6-3.
The Chinese converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 40-A), the 8th (4-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (6-2 30-40). On the other side, Starodubtsewa was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 30-40).
They contested 65 points. The Chinese was the winner of the set after clinching 7 more points than the Ukrainian (36-29). Wushuang conceded 12 points on serve (20-12). On the other side, the Ukrainian conceded 16 points on serve (17-16
).Zheng didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Yuliia Starodubtseva in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, there was more to do for Wushuang to win the set since Yulia managed to break back in the 10th (5-5) game. Wushuang maintained her cool before winning the set at the breaker at 5.
The Chinese failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 40.
Tiebreak
Wushuang won 5 minibreaks in the 3rd (1-2), 7th (4-3), 8th (5-3), 11th (6-5) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Yulia won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 2nd (2-0), 9th (4-5) and 10th (5-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 1-3, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5
The Chinese converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 30-40) and the 8th game (4-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Yulia converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 8th (3-4 15-40) and the 10th game (4-5 40-A and 40-A).
They played 83 points. This set was a huge battle since finally Wushuang won barely 1 point more than Yulia (42-41). The Chinese surrendered 19 points on serve (26-19). On the losing side, Starodubtsewa conceded 16 points on serve (22-16).
Tennis Scores in Jiujiang
- Anna BondarBondar – Sijia WeiWei (6-2 6-2)
- Tamara KorpatschKorpatsch – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (3-0 ret.)
- Hanyu GuoGuo – Alina KorneevaKorneeva (3-6 6-2 7-66)
- Wushuang ZhengZheng – Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva (6-3 7-65)
- Ella SeidelSeidel – Tiantsoa Rakotomanga RajaonahRakotomanga Rajaonah (6-4 6-3)
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Victoria Jimenez KasintsevaJimenez Kasintseva (6-3 6-1)
- Dominika SalkovaSalkova – Aliona FaleiFalei (7-62 7-5)
- Anastasia ZakharovaZakharova – Ena ShibaharaShibahara (6-4 6-1)
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