Steven Diez prevails over Runhao Hua 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in Shanghai Challenger on Wednesday. Diez will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Enrique Lopez-Perez in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Diez won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 5th (2-3) game, Steven broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
2nd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Diez conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Diez scored 73 points vs. the Chinese’s 59 points.
Diez didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Runhao was struggling in converting his break points because he converted only 25% of his break points (1/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Diez and Hua is 1-0.
Next Match: Steven Diez vs. Enrique Lopez-Perez – stats
Diez will fight against Lopez-Perez in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Steven Diez and Enrique Lopez-Perez since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – James WardWard (6-4 7-63) – 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