TENNIS SCORES. Sofia Kenin bests Paquet in the 1st round in Zhengzhou

Sofia Kenin gets by Chloe Paquet 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in Zhengzhou on Monday. Kenin will seek to keep on going in this event against Alize Cornet in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kenin overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Paquet in the 1^st game (1-0). The American extended her lead after breaking Chloe in the 5^th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

2^nd set.

Paquet was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Kenin in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, Sofia succeeded in coming back to break Chloe in the 5^th (2-3) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the American scored 68 points vs. Chloe’s 55 points.

Sofia was pretty effective in converting 57% of the break points that she conquered (4/7). On the other side, Chloe had a tough time in converting her break points because she converted only 14% of her break points (1/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Kenin and Paquet is 1-1.

Next Match: Sofia Kenin vs. Alize Cornet – stats

Kenin will face Cornet in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Sofia Kenin and Alize Cornet face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Kenin and Cornet (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they played, Kenin won 6-2 6-4 in the semifinal in Hobart back in January 2019.

Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou

• Alize CornetCornet – Jia-Jing LuLu (7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Ying-Ying DuanDuan (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Zhaoxuan YangYang (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-4 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Meiling WangWang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Polona HercogHercog – Meiling WangWang (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
• Xiaodi YouYou – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alize CornetCornet – Sofia KeninKenin (1-1) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Fiona FerroFerro (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-1) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-4) – See H2H details