TENNIS SCORES. Shuai Zhang tops Krunic in the 1st round in Nanchang

Shuai Zhang wins against Aleksandra Krunic 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Nanchang on Tuesday. Zhang will have to play Lin Zhu in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Zhang won the set after she broke Aleksandra in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (4-2) game. Aleksandra tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Notwithstanding, Shuai kept the focus before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Zhang didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Krunic in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Notwithstanding, there was more to do for Zhang to win the set since Aleksandra succeeded in breaking back in the 6^th (2-4) and in the 8^th (3-5) game. Shuai kept her cool to break the Serbian in the 7^th (5-2) and in the 9^th (6-3) game.

The Chinese failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.

A crucial moment of the match was when Shuai won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Shuai scored 72 points vs. Krunic’s 54 points.

Shuai won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 43% (6/14). On the other side, Krunic had some problems in converting her break points since she converted only 38% of her break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Zhang and Krunic is 2-0 for Shuai.

Next Match: Shuai Zhang vs. Lin Zhu – stats

Zhang will face Zhu in the 2^nd round.

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

The last time that they locked horns, Zhu won 7-6³ 4-6 6-1 in the quarter in Nanchang back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Nanchang

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