TENNIS SCORES NEW YORK. Immense Konta motors past Zhang in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open

Johanna Konta rolls over Shuai Zhang 6-2 6-3 in the 3^rd round in New York on Friday after playing a remarkable match to face off with Karolina Pliskova in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Konta started the set strong after breaking Zhang in the 1^st game (1-0). Konta managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Zhang in the 7^th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).

2^nd set.

Konta had a favorable start in this set after breaking Zhang in the 1^st game (1-0). Konta reinforced her lead after breaking Shuai in the 9^th (6-3) game before conquering the set.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Johanna scored 64 points vs. the Chinese’s 38 points.

The Brit served pretty well to win 88% of the points (22/25) behind her first serve, and she won 80% points (12/15) on her second serve. Konta won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, Shuai wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Konta and Zhang is 5-1 for Johanna.

Next Match: Johanna Konta vs. Karolina Pliskova – stats

Konta will take on Pliskova in the 4^th round.

This will be the 6^th time that Johanna Konta and Karolina Pliskova square off. The head to head is 4-1 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Pliskova won 6-3 6-4 in the final in Rome back in May 2019.

Tennis Scores at the US Open

• Qiang WangWang – Fiona FerroFerro (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Sofia KeninKenin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Johanna KontaKonta – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 6-3) – See score progression

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• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – See H2H details
• Johanna KontaKonta – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-4) – See H2H details
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
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