TENNIS SCORES. Purcell topples Saville in the 2nd round of the the Shanghai Challenger

Max Purcell gets the better of Luke Saville 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Shanghai Challenger on Tuesday. Purcell will have to play Hiroki Moriya in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Saville conquered in the 3^rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Max conquered in the 12^th game (7-5).

3^rd set.

Purcell enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Saville in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break turned to be decisive for Max to win the set (6-3) as no one dropped a serve anymore.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Purcell scored 90 points vs. Luke’s 79 points.

Purcell served very well to win 78% of the points (46/59) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (18/28) on his second serve. Purcell won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 40% (2/5). On the other side, Luke had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Purcell and Saville is 4-3.

Next Match: Max Purcell vs. Hiroki Moriya – stats

Purcell will take on Moriya in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Max Purcell and Hiroki Moriya since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

The last time that they locked horns, Purcell won 6-4 5-7 6-4 in the 1^st round in Granby Challenger back in 2017.

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