Shuai Zhang overcomes Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-65 4-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday. Zhang will face off with Johanna Konta in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Shuai won the set after she broke Ekaterina in the 6th (4-2) game. Ekaterina tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Notwithstanding, the Chinese maintained the focus before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.
2nd set.
Alexandrova got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Zhang in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Alexandrova to win the set as Zhang managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 9th (4-5) game. The Russian kept her focus to break Shuai in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (6-4) game.
3rd set.
Zhang started the set strong after breaking Alexandrova in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more to do for Shuai to win the set as Ekaterina succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (3-3) game. The Chinese maintained her cool to break the Russian in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Statistics
After this match, the head to head between Zhang and Alexandrova is 1-1.
Highlights Shuai Zhang vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova U.S. Open – New York
Next Match: Shuai Zhang vs. Johanna Konta – stats
Zhang will play Konta in the 3rd round.
This will be the 6th time that Shuai Zhang and Johanna Konta fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Konta (see full H2H stats), 4-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Konta won 6-4 6-0 in the quarter in Beijing back in 2016.
Tennis Scores at the US Open
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- Donna VekicVekic – Kaia KanepiKanepi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Kristie AhnAhn – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alison RiskeRiske (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-1 4-6 7-62) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-65 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninKenin – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (7-64 6-0) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
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- Julia GoergesGoerges – Francesca Di LorenzoDi Lorenzo (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Alize CornetCornet (6-4 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
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- Petra MarticMartic – Ana BogdanBogdan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-4 6-73 6-3) – See score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Margarita GasparyanGasparyan (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Kiki BertensBertens – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Simona HalepHalep (2-6 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Timea BabosBabos (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Lauren DavisDavis (6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Caty McNallyMcNally (5-7 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Madison KeysKeys – Lin ZhuZhu (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Venus WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kristie AhnAhn – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-0) – See H2H details
- Elise MertensMertens – Andrea PetkovicPetkovic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sofia KeninKenin – Madison KeysKeys (1-1) – See H2H details
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- Fiona FerroFerro – Qiang WangWang (1-3) – See H2H details
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Ashleigh BartyBarty (1-2) – See H2H details