Lesley Kerkhove blitzes Magdalena Frech 7-5 6-0 in the qualifications in Zhengzhou on Monday after playing a solid match to square off with Ajla Tomljanovic in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Dutch won the set after she broke the Pole 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (5-1) and in the 12th (7-5) game. The Pole tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Nevertheless, Kerkhove didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 7-5.
Kerkhove failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 0.
A crucial moment of the match was when Kerkhove won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
Nonetheless also Frech won 4 consecutive games from 1-5 to 5-5
2nd set.
Frech was totally subdued and Lesley won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Kerkhove scored 79 points vs. Magdalena’s 59 points.
Kerkhove won this match even if she was struggling in finding the solution in converting her break points as she converted only 38% (6/16). On the other side, the Pole wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 18% of her break points (2/11). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Kerkhove and Frech is 1-0 for Lesley.
Next Match: Lesley Kerkhove vs. Ajla Tomljanovic – stats
Kerkhove will compete against Tomljanovic in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Lesley Kerkhove and Ajla Tomljanovic since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou
- Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove – Magdalena FrechFrech (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
- Meiling WangWang – Zhuoxuan BaiBai (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Xiaodi YouYou – Samantha MurrayMurray (5-7 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Jia-Jing LuLu – Asia MuhammadMuhammad (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Polona HercogHercog – Meiling WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Jia-Jing LuLu (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove (0-0) – See H2H details
- Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs – Saisai ZhengZheng (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison RiskeRiske – Angelique KerberKerber (1-3) – See H2H details
- Fiona FerroFerro – Zhaoxuan YangYang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Xiaodi YouYou – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ying-Ying DuanDuan – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-1) – See H2H details
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-4) – See H2H details