Last season, Iga Świątek won the WTA 1000 in Beijing. This year Shelf she withdrew from defending her title. She cited “personal matters” as the reason. On Tuesday morning, one of the biggest hits was played – Paula Bados (19th WTA) vs. Jessica Pegula (3rd WTA). The American was the favorite. This was indicated not only by the results from recent weeks, where Pegula reached, among others, to the US Open final, but also the WTA ranking and head-to-head results gamethat – three fights and three wins for the 30-year-old. However, when the ladies entered the court, all the statistics ceased to matter and a sensation occurred.
Great performance by Paula Badosa. Jessica Pegula on her knees
The beginning of the fight was quite even, although the American showed more initiative. Already in the third game she had a break point and quickly used it. After a while she was leading 3:1. However, she was unable to maintain her good streak. She also made mistakes with her own service. Especially in game number six, where it was broken to 15.
Then the game went point by point until the ninth set of the set. Then Pegula started making mistakes in the service area again. She had huge problems with her first serve. Suffice it to say that throughout the entire game his performance was 53 percent, while his opponents' percentage was as high as 93 percent. It was similar in the mentioned game. The American lost her serve to 0, which ended the game – Badosa won 6:4.
Pegula was swept in the second set. Badosa is a potential rival of Fręch in Beijing
This result clearly clipped the wings of the world's third rocket and it was completely destroyed. She didn't hold a single serve in the second set. She was so wrong. However, it's not about double faults, but simply lacking precision and she often threw the ball out of bounds or into the net. Again, neither the first nor the second service worked, and it was even worse – they were at 25 and 22 percent respectively. Badosa took full advantage of this. She broke her opponent three times, completely crushing her in the sixth game and won 6-0.
Paula Badosa – Jessica Pegula 6:4, 6:0
This is another successful performance by the Spaniard this season. After the WTA 1000 in Madrid, where she lost her first match, she achieved really decent results. She won in Washington, reached the semi-finals in Cincinnati and the quarter-finals of the US Open. Now she will want to show good form in Beijing too. Her next rival will be the winner of the fight between Magdalena Fręch and Shuai Zhang. The match is already underway. We invite you to follow the coverage on Sport.pl and in our mobile application.