TENNIS SCORES. Blanch gets by Novikov in the 1st round of the the Cary Challenger

Ulises Blanch gets the better of Dennis Novikov 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in Cary Challenger on Monday. Blanch will play Christian Langmo in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Blanch conquered in the 3^rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Blanch was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Novikov in the 1^st game (1-0). Blanch managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Dennis in the 5^th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Blanch scored 71 points vs. Novikov’s 53 points.

Blanch served pretty well to win 83% of the points (25/30) behind his first serve, and he won 67% points (14/21) on his second serve. Blanch fired 18 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Blanch won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points as he converted only 25% (3/12). On the other side, Dennis wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Blanch and Novikov is 1-0.

Next Match: Ulises Blanch vs. Christian Langmo – stats

Blanch will compete against Langmo in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Ulises Blanch and Christian Langmo since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• Liam BroadyBroady – Petros ChrysochosChrysochos (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Sekou BangouraBangoura (4-6 7-6¹ 6-4) – See score progression
• Jc AragoneAragone – Connor FarrenFarren (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tadas BabelisBabelis (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Martin RedlickiRedlicki – Omni KumarKumar (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Renzo OlivoOlivo – Alexander RitschardRitschard (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ulises BlanchBlanch – Dennis NovikovNovikov (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Kevin KingKing – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Alexander SarkissianSarkissian – Gabriel PetitPetit (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ben PataelPatael – Harrison AdamsAdams (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Liam CaruanaCaruana – Jordi ArconadaArconada (7-6⁸ 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Roy SmithSmith (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Benjamin SigouinSigouin (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Evan SongSong – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – See H2H details
• Donald YoungYoung – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Daniel NguyenNguyen (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (0-0) – See H2H details
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jc AragoneAragone – Peter PolanskyPolansky (0-0) – See H2H details
• Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ben PataelPatael – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – See H2H details
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – See H2H details
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – John-Patrick SmithSmith (0-0) – See H2H details