Nina Stojanovic stuns Yafan Wang 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Nanchang on Tuesday. Stojanovic will play against Samantha Stosur in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Stojanovic started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Wang in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Nina to win the set since the Chinese found the way to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. The Serbian kept her focus to break the Chinese in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
A crucial moment of the match was when Stojanovic won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
2nd set.
Stojanovic won the set after she broke the Chinese 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game. Yafan tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Yet, Nina kept the focus before winning the set 6-4.
The Serbian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 0.
A crucial moment of the match was when Nina won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Stojanovic scored 66 points vs. Yafan’s 50 points.
The Serbian was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that she procured (6/9). On the other side, Wang was struggling in converting her break points as she converted only 30% of her break points (3/10). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Stojanovic and Wang is 1-0 for Nina.
Next Match: Nina Stojanovic vs. Samantha Stosur – stats
Stojanovic will face Stosur in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Nina Stojanovic and Samantha Stosur since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.
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
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Xinyu GaoGao (5-7 6-0 7-5) – 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
- Shuai PengPeng – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Peangtarn PlipuechPlipuech (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Aleksandra KrunicKrunic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Stefanie VoegeleVoegele (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Dalila JakupovicJakupovic – Sara ErraniErrani (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Greta ArnArn (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Fang Ying XunYing Xun (6-0 6-3) – 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
- Fangzhou LiuLiu – Anna DanilinaDanilina (6-3 2-6 7-5) – 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