Anna Blinkova topples Lilli Tagger 6-3 6-3 in the final in Jiujiang on Sunday. The match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. This is the first time that the Russian conquered this tournament. Her best achievement in this tournament so far was reaching the 1st round. Here you can see when her history at this event.
The Russian added $ 14,816 to her prize money after winning this final. She has earned $ 36,300 in total after winning this tournament.
Highlights Anna Blinkova vs. Lilli Tagger Jiangxi Open – Jiujiang
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 79 points vs. the Austrian’s 60.
Blinkova
Blinkova won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points after she converted only 36% (5/14) of the procured opportunities.
Tagger
On the other side, Lilli had some problems converting her break points (only 22% – 2/9). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Blinkova and Tagger is 1-0 for Anna.
This was the 2nd career title for Blinkova. (see list of titles and finals). Tagger lost the opportunity to win her title at the first attempt. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
Blinkova conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Lilli Tagger in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set since Lilli succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd
(1-1) and in the 4th (2-2) game. Blinkova kept her cool to break the Austrian in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.Anna failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 0.
Tagger was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-3
to 6-3.They played 81 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than Tagger (46-35). Blinkova dropped 15 points on serve (19-15). on the other side of the net, Tagger conceded 27 points on serve (20-27).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Russian conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before eventually winning the set (6-3).
The Austrian lost the 8th game (5-3) when she had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
Blinkova was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 8th game (4-3 40-A). On the other side, Lilli was unable to convert any of her 3 break points. She had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (1-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 60 points. Anna won 6 points more than Tagger (33-27). Blinkova surrendered 8 points on serve (20-8). On the other side, Lilli conceded 13 points on serve (19-13).