TENNIS SCORES THE CARY CHALLENGER. Immense Peniston trashes Zhu in the 1st round of the the Cary Challenger

Ryan Peniston routs Evan Zhu 6-2 6-3 in the 1^st round in Cary Challenger on Monday after playing a superlative match to clash against Tommy Paul in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Peniston enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Zhu in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Brit to win the set since Evan managed to break back in the 5^th (1-4) and in the 7^th (2-5) game. Ryan maintained his cool to break Zhu in the 6^th (5-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Peniston failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 40.

Evan lost the 6^th game (5-1) when he had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

A crucial moment of the match was when Ryan won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2^nd set.

Peniston had a great start in this set after breaking Zhu in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, that was not enough for Peniston to win the set because the American managed to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Peniston maintained his cool to break Evan in the 4^th (3-1) game before managing to win the set (6-3).

Evan lost the 2^nd game (2-0) when he had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Brit scored 65 points vs. Evan’s 46 points.

The Brit was pretty effective in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered (6/10). On the other side, the American was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (3/6). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Peniston and Zhu is 1-0.

Next Match: Ryan Peniston vs. Tommy Paul – stats

Peniston will square off with Paul in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Ryan Peniston and Tommy Paul since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• 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
• Liam BroadyBroady – Petros ChrysochosChrysochos (6-3 6-0) – 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
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Benjamin SigouinSigouin (6-1 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
• 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