TENNIS SCORES ZHENGZHOU. Immense Tomljanovic clobbers Kerkhove in the 1st round of the Zhengzhou Open

Ajla Tomljanovic brushes past Lesley Kerkhove 6-2 6-0 in the 1^st round in Zhengzhou on Tuesday after playing a good match to deal with Kiki Bertens in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Kerkhove overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Tomljanovic in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Tomljanovic refused to bow to come back to break Lesley 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Tomljanovic won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.

2^nd set.

Lesley was overpowered in this set and the Croatian won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Tomljanovic scored 51 points vs. Kerkhove’s 32 points.

The Croatian served very well to win 75% of the points (15/20) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (11/22) on her second serve. Ajla didn’t lose the focus when converting 75% of the break points that she procured (6/8). On the other side, Kerkhove was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (1/2). However, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Tomljanovic and Kerkhove is 1-0 for Ajla.

Next Match: Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Kiki Bertens – stats

Tomljanovic will come up against Bertens in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Ajla Tomljanovic and Kiki Bertens face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Bertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Bertens won 7-6² 4-6 6-2 in the final in Seoul back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Zhengzhou

• Polona HercogHercog – Meiling WangWang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lesley KerkhoveKerkhove (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Jia-Jing LuLu (7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Xiaodi YouYou (6-3 0-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Angelique KerberKerber (5-7 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Zhaoxuan YangYang (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Bibiane SchoofsSchoofs (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Ying-Ying DuanDuan (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (6-4 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 5-7 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Polona HercogHercog (4-1) – See H2H details
• Alize CornetCornet – Sofia KeninKenin (1-1) – See H2H details
• Kiki BertensBertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Alison RiskeRiske (2-4) – See H2H details
• Petra MarticMartic – Fiona FerroFerro (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-1) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-4) – See H2H details