Samantha Stosur defeats Arina Rodionova 7-66 6-3 in the 1st round in Nanchang on Tuesday. Stosur will engage against Nina Stojanovic in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Rodionova commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Stosur in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Samantha succeeded in coming back to break Arina in the 6th (3-3) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 6.
2nd set.
Samantha won the set after she broke Rodionova 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Arina tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Nonetheless, Stosur kept the focus before winning the set 6-3.
Samantha failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Stosur scored 80 points vs. Rodionova’s 72 points.
Stosur was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8). On the other side, Rodionova had a tough time in converting her break points since she converted only 40% of her break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Stosur and Rodionova is 1-0 for Samantha.
Next Match: Samantha Stosur vs. Nina Stojanovic – stats
Stosur will square off with Stojanovic in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Samantha Stosur and Nina Stojanovic since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
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