TENNIS SCORES. Peng stuns Badosa in the 1st round in Nanchang

Shuai Peng shocks Paula Badosa Gibert 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in Nanchang on Tuesday. Peng will clash against Kristyna Pliskova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that the Chinese conquered in the 10^th game (6-4).

2^nd set.

Peng in this set played at a much higher level than the Spaniard and eventually she won 6-2 after breaking the Spaniard in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

The Spaniard was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Shuai scored 63 points vs. Paula’s 46 points.

Peng served extremely well to win 82% of the points (28/34) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (9/15) on her second serve. Peng was great in converting all the break points (3/3). On the other side, Badosa wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Peng and Badosa is 1-0 for Shuai.

Next Match: Shuai Peng vs. Kristyna Pliskova – stats

Peng will face Pliskova in the 2^nd round.

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

The last time that they squared off, Pliskova won 3-6 7-6⁶ 3-3 ret. in the 1^st round in Shenzhen back in January 2019.

Tennis Scores in Nanchang

• Lin ZhuZhu – Peangtarn PlipuechPlipuech (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuai PengPeng – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Jana FettFett – Katarina ZavatskaZavatska (7-6³ 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ankita RainaRaina (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Samantha StosurStosur – Arina RodionovaRodionova (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Yafan WangWang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Xinyu GaoGao (5-7 6-0 7-5) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Monica NiculescuNiculescu (1-6 6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Fangzhou LiuLiu – Anna DanilinaDanilina (6-3 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Greta ArnArn (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Dalila JakupovicJakupovic – Sara ErraniErrani (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Fang Ying XunYing Xun (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Giuliana OlmosOlmos (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Shuai ZhangZhang – Lin ZhuZhu (1-1) – See H2H details
• Shuai PengPeng – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Lara ArruabarrenaArruabarrena – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Jana FettFett (0-0) – See H2H details
• Fangzhou LiuLiu – Magda LinetteLinette (0-1) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Dalila JakupovicJakupovic (0-1) – See H2H details
• Samantha StosurStosur – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (0-0) – See H2H details