TENNIS SCORES NANCHANG. Superb Jakupovic soars past Errani in the 1st round in Nanchang

Dalila Jakupovic extinguishes Sara Errani 6-1 6-1 in the 1^st round in Nanchang on Monday after playing a fantastic match to play Kateryna Kozlova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Jakupovic started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Errani in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Jakupovic reinforced her lead after breaking the Italian in the 4^th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Dalila won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Jakupovic had a great start in this set after breaking Errani in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Slovenian to win the set because Sara found the way to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) game. The Slovenian maintained her cool to break the Italian in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game.

Sara was completely wiped out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Slovenian scored 56 points vs. Errani’s 29 points.

Jakupovic was pretty effective in converting 86% of the break points that she procured (6/7). On the other side, Sara was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 20% of her break points (1/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Jakupovic and Errani is 1-0 for Dalila.

Next Match: Dalila Jakupovic vs. Kateryna Kozlova – stats

Jakupovic will compete against Kozlova in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Dalila Jakupovic and Kateryna Kozlova clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Jakupovic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Jakupovic won 7-6³ 3-6 6-4 in the 1^st round in Luxembourg 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