{"id":233276,"date":"2019-10-03T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=233276"},"modified":"2025-01-13T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:53:36","slug":"andreescu-wins-second-round-match-at-china-open-16th-match-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/03\/andreescu-wins-second-round-match-at-china-open-16th-match-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreescu wins second round match at China Open, 16th match in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEIJING — Bianca Andreescu won her 16th match in a row on Wednesday, but the Canadian is not satisfied with her mental approach.<\/p>\n

After the world No. 6 beat Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-3, 7-6 (5) in a second-round match at the China Open, Andreescu said she has to focus on stressing the positives.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was more of a battle mentally with myself than anything,\u201d said the 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI felt like I was getting very down on myself. I expect a lot from myself in general, but I have to realize not everything is going to go the way I want it to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andreescu fought back from a 4-1 deficit in the second set and then fended off a set point to beat Mertens in a rematch of a U.S. Open quarterfinal. The Canadian also won in New York last month en route to her first career Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can improve on a lot of things, but I think the main thing right now is definitely keeping a more positive approach to things,\u201d Andreescu said. \u201cEven if there are 100 positives in something, if there is one negative thing that happens, that triggers something in me and I then I totally forget about all the positives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to think of the positive as much as I can and just work with what I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was some confusion about how many matches Andreescu had won in a row prior to Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The WTA Tour clarified afterward her win streak stands at 16 matches because a walkover win for Sofia Kenin in the second round at the French Open does not count as a defeat for Andreescu.<\/p>\n

Therefore, her last official defeat was in late March when she retired in the round of 16 at the Miami Open while trailing 6-1, 2-0 against Anett Kontaveit.<\/p>\n

Andreescu will face world No. 66 Jennifer Brady of the U.S. on Thursday in the round of 16 at the US$8.285 million WTA Tour Premier-Mandatory event.<\/p>\n

Andreescu has won three of four matches against Brady, all played at smaller tournaments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not expecting anything easy because every time I did play her, it was a tough battle,\u201d Andreescu said.<\/p>\n

Andreescu said she also needs to improve on her serve. She had seven double faults against Mertens and put just 53 per cent of her first serves in.<\/p>\n

The Canadian saved eight of 12 break-point chances for Mertens to limit the problems caused by her serve. Andreescu also converted on five of her six break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n

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In women’s doubles on Wednesday, the fourth-seeded team of Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Yifan Xu of China lost 7-5, 6-3 to Czech twin sisters Karolina and Kristyna Pliskova.<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, Andy Murray won consecutive singles matches for the first time since undergoing hip surgery in January.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Murray beat British countryman Cameron Norrie 7-6 (6), 6-7 (4), 6-1 to make the singles quarterfinals at a tournament for the first time in 12 months.<\/p>\n

Murray will face either top-seeded Dominic Thiem or Chinese wild-card entry Zhang Zhizhen on Friday.<\/p>\n

Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime will face No.<\/p>\n

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2 seed Alexander Zverev of Germany in a third-round match on Thursday.<\/p>\n

— With files from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 2, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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