Venus Williams demolishes Saisai Zheng 6-1 6-0 in the 1st round in New York on Monday after playing a superlative match to clash against Elina Svitolina in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Williams had a great start in this set after breaking Zheng in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Williams managed to boost her lead after breaking Saisai in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).
Zheng lost the 2nd game (2-0) when she had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.
A crucial moment of the match was when Venus won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
2nd set.
The Chinese was broken 3 times and Venus won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Williams scored 58 points vs. the Chinese’s 29 points.
Williams served exceptionally well to win 81% of the points (25/31) behind her first serve, and she won 55% points (11/20) on her second serve. Williams was well focused in converting 71% of the break points that she procured (5/7). On the other side, the Chinese wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Williams and Zheng is 2-0 for Venus.
Highlights Venus Williams vs. Saisai Zheng U.S. Open – New York
Next Match: Venus Williams vs. Elina Svitolina – stats
Williams will face Svitolina in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Venus Williams and Elina Svitolina clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Svitolina won 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in Paris back in May 2019.
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