Daniel Nguyen grounds Benjamin Sigouin 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in Cary Challenger on Monday after playing a remarkable match to face off with Mitchell Krueger in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Nguyen had a strong start of this set after breaking Sigouin in the 1st game (1-0). The American managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Benjamin in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

The Canadian was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

2nd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the American conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Nguyen scored 76 points vs. Sigouin’s 55 points.

Nguyen served extremely well to win 87% of the points (26/30) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (11/21) on his second serve. Daniel won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 29% (4/14). On the other side, Sigouin wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this encounter, the head to head between Nguyen and Sigouin is 2-0.

Next Match: Daniel Nguyen vs. Mitchell Krueger – stats

Nguyen will compete against Krueger in the 2nd round.

There is no head to head record between Daniel Nguyen and Mitchell Krueger since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

The last time that they played, Krueger won 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Drummondville Challenger back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

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