TENNIS SCORES. Maria Sakkari topples Peng in the 2nd round in New York

Maria Sakkari defeats Shuai Peng 6-7⁵ 6-4 6-2 in the 2^nd round in New York on Thursday. Sakkari will seek to keep on going in this event against Ashleigh Barty in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Peng won the set after she broke Maria in the 5^th (3-2) game. Sakkari tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. However, Peng kept the situation under control before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.

2^nd set.

Sakkari got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Peng in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Maria to win the set as Peng managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 8^th (3-5) game. The Greek kept her cool to break Peng in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-4).

A crucial moment of the match was when Maria won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

3^rd set.

Sakkari took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Peng in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. The Greek extended her lead after breaking the Chinese in the 3^rd (3-0), in the 40^th ([A-40]), in the 15^th ([0-15]), in the 30^th ([15-30]), in the 30^th ([30-30]), in the 30^th ([40-30]) and in the 40^th ([A-40]) game before winning the set (6-2).

Maria failed to serve out the set when leading [40-30] to be broken at 0.

A crucial moment of the match was when Sakkari won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Sakkari scored 118 points vs. Peng’s 110 points.

Sakkari served pretty well to win 76% of the points (51/67) behind her first serve. Nonetheless she won only 31% points (13/42) on her second serve. Sakkari won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 35% (6/17). On the other side, the Chinese was battling in converting her break points because she converted only 30% of her break points (3/10). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Sakkari and Peng is 1-0 for Maria.

Highlights Maria Sakkari vs. Shuai Peng U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Maria Sakkari vs. Ashleigh Barty – stats

Sakkari will square off with Barty in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 4^th time that Maria Sakkari and Ashleigh Barty play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Barty (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they played, Barty won 5-7 6-2 6-0 in the quarter in Cincinnati back in August 2019.

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