Borna Coric victorious over Sumit Nagal 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in Salem Open on Sunday. Coric will play Sebastian Baez in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Borna added to his prize money $ 2,680 after winning this match. He has already won $ 6,840 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Croatian will add $ 4,800 to his earnings to get in total $ 11,640 in total.
Highlights Borna Coric vs. Sumit Nagal Winston-Salem Open – Winston-Salem
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 57 points vs. Nagal’s 41.
Coric
Borna served exceptionally well to win 89% of the points (24/27) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (11/21) on his second serve. Coric was effective at converting 80% of the break points that he conquered (4/5).
Nagal
On the other side, Nagal was great in converting the only break point that he converted. Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Coric and Nagal is 1-0 for Borna.
Draw and next match H2H: Borna Coric vs. Sebastian Baez – stats
Coric will compete against Baez in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Borna Coric and Sebastian Baez clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Baez (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that the Croatian grabbed in the 3rd game (2-1) just before ultimately conquering the set (6-4).
Borna converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 11th game (6-3 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Croatian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 60 points. Borna was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than Nagal (34-26). The Croatian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (20-4). On the other side, Sumit conceded 14 points on serve (22-14).
The Croatian in this set was in much better shape than the Indian and without too much hustling he won 6-2 after breaking Sumit in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when Borna won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to bring the score from 1-1 to 5-1.
Coric was flawless in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 0-40) and the 5th game (3-1 30-40). On the other side, Nagal wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 1st game (0-0 30-40).
They contested 38 points. The Croatian was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Sumit (23-15). The Croatian surrendered 9 points on serve (15-9). on the other side of the net, the Indian conceded 8 points on serve (6-8).
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-1 7-63)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 3-6 7-61)
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Adam WaltonWalton (2-6 7-5 6-4)
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Taro DanielDaniel (4-6 6-1 6-2)
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Daniel EvansEvans (2-6 6-4 6-1)
- Borna CoricCoric – Sumit NagalNagal (6-4 6-2)
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – James DuckworthDuckworth (3-6 6-3 6-4)
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