Mikael Ymer dispatches Joao Sousa 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Stockholm on Wednesday. Ymer will play Cedrik-Marcel Stebe in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Mikael won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 9th (4-5) game. Ymer broke back 3 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
2nd set.
The Swede won the set after he broke Sousa 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Sousa tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Yet, Ymer maintained the focus before winning the set 6-4.
The Swede failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Ymer scored 73 points vs. the Portuguese’s 62 points.
Ymer was effective when converting 60% of the break points that he conquered (6/10). On the other side, Sousa was well focused in converting 57% of the break points that he procured points (4/7). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this contest, the head to head between Ymer and Sousa is 1-1.
Next Match: Mikael Ymer vs. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe – stats
Ymer will come up against Stebe in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Mikael Ymer and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Stockholm
- Mikael YmerYmer – Joao SousaSousa (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Oscar OtteOtte (7-66 7-65) – See score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Pablo AndujarAndujar (5-7 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – John MillmanMillman (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Casper RuudRuud (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Elias YmerYmer (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Dennis NovakNovak (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Radu AlbotAlbot (3-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (7-5 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-1) – See H2H details
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Gianluca MagerMager (0-0) – See H2H details
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Mikael YmerYmer – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – See H2H details