TENNIS SCORES. Tatsuma Ito overcomes Kumar Mukund in the 2nd round of the the Shanghai Challenger

Tatsuma Ito bests Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Shanghai Challenger on Tuesday. Ito will clash against Collin Altamirano in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Japanese conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Tatsuma won the set after he broke Sasi in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game. The Indian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (4-2) game. However, Tatsuma didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Japanese won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Ito scored 66 points vs. Sasi’s 51 points.

Tatsuma served extremely well to win 79% of the points (30/38) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (10/16) on his second serve. The Japanese won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Sasi didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Ito and Kumar Mukund is 1-0.

Next Match: Tatsuma Ito vs. Collin Altamirano – stats

Ito will play Altamirano in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Tatsuma Ito and Collin Altamirano since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger

• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Tak Khunn WangKhunn Wang (6-7³ 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni (4-6 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Akira SantillanSantillan – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrew HarrisHarris – Makoto OchiOchi (4-6 6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Steven DiezDiez – Runhao HuaHua (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Harry BourchierBourchier (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 7-6⁸ 6-0) – See score progression
• Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez – Jumpei YamasakiYamasaki (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Fajing SunSun (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Di WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – Luke SavilleSaville (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Arjun KadheKadhe (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – James WardWard (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Yecong HeHe (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Tatsuma ItoIto – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (0-0) – See H2H details
• Di WuWu – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Steven DiezDiez – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (0-0) – See H2H details
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – See H2H details
• Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – See H2H details
• Akira SantillanSantillan – Andrew HarrisHarris (0-0) – See H2H details
• Max PurcellPurcell – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – See H2H details