Daniel Nguyen stuns Marcelo Arevalo 6-4 4-6 7-63 in the qualifications in Salem Open on Saturday. Nguyen will square off with Raymond Sarmiento in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The American won the set after he broke Arevalo in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game. Marcelo tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Nevertheless, Daniel kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-4.
Daniel failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
A crucial moment of the match was when Nguyen won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.
2nd set.
Arevalo won the set after he broke Nguyen in the 6th (4-2) and in the 10th (6-4) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Nonetheless, Arevalo didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-4.
3rd set.
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, the American won the breaker at 3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the American scored 96 points vs. Marcelo’s 88 points.
The American served exceptionally well to win 84% of the points (46/55) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (21/40) on his second serve. The American was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that he procured (3/5). On the other side, Arevalo wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 38% of his break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Nguyen and Arevalo is 1-0 for Daniel.
Next Match: Daniel Nguyen vs. Raymond Sarmiento – stats
Nguyen will take on Sarmiento in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Daniel Nguyen and Raymond Sarmiento since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
The last time that they competed against each other, Nguyen won 3-6 7-62 6-2 in the qualifications in Seoul Challenger back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
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- Strong KirchheimerStrong – Kevin KrawietzKevin (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDamir – Kevin KingKevin (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Petros ChrysochosPetros – Filip PeliwoFilip (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Daniel NguyenDaniel – Marcelo ArevaloMarcelo (6-4 4-6 7-63) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloBjorn – Jurgen MelzerJurgen (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Borna GojoBorna – Taha BaadiTaha (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Raymond SarmientoRaymond – Christopher EubanksChristopher (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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