Richard Gasquet stuns Alexander Shevchenko 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Doha on Tuesday. Gasquet will engage against Andrey Rublev in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes. Gasquet won this tournament once in 2013. Here you can see his history at this event.
The French player added to his prize money $ 9,630 after winning this match. He has already won $ 24,600 after this win. If he wins the next match, Richard will add $ 17,590 to his earnings to get in total $ 42,190 in total.
Highlights Richard Gasquet vs. Alexander Shevchenko Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the French player scored 72 points vs. Shevchenko’s 61.
Gasquet
Gasquet served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (30/39) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (16/25) on his second serve. Gasquet won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points after he converted only 29% (2/7) of the procured opportunities.
Shevchenko
On the other side, Alexander wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Gasquet and Shevchenko is 1-0 for Richard.
Draw and next match H2H: Richard Gasquet vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Gasquet will face Rublev in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Richard Gasquet and Andrey Rublev square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Rublev (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Richard conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-4).
Richard converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (6-3 15-40). On the other side, Alexander wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (2-3 40-A).
They contested 66 points. The French player was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than the Kazakhstani (38-28). The French player surrendered 6 points on serve (22-6). In addition, on the other side, Alexander conceded 16 points on serve (22-16).
Gasquet got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Alexander Shevchenko in the 2nd game (2-0). The French player managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the Kazakhstani before winning the set (6-4).
Gasquet was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (5-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Kazakhstani wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 0th game (0-2 40-A).
They played 67 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Gasquet won just 1 point more than Shevchenko (34-33). Richard lost 12 points on serve (24-12). on the other side of the net, the Kazakhstani conceded 10 points on serve (21-10).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (7-63 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-62 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Maximilian MartererMarterer (7-65 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-1 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Vit KoprivaKopriva (7-5 7-66) – Stats and score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Alexander BublikBublik (0-3) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Pavel KotovKotov (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H details and stats