Nicolas Mejia shocks Sekou Bangoura 4-6 7-61 6-4 in the 1st round in Cary Challenger on Tuesday. Mejia will have to play John-Patrick Smith in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Bangoura conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Bangoura had a great start in this set after breaking Mejia in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Nicolas succeeded in coming back to break the American in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 1.
3rd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Colombian conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Colombian scored 108 points vs. Bangoura’s 94 points.
The Colombian served very well to win 82% of the points (49/60) behind his first serve, and he won 62% points (16/26) on his second serve. The Colombian struck 10 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Nicolas won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 20% (2/10). On the other side, Bangoura didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this encounter, the head to head between Mejia and Bangoura is 1-1.
Next Match: Nicolas Mejia vs. John-Patrick Smith – stats
Mejia will face Smith in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mejia and John-Patrick Smith since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other at pro level.
The last time that they competed against each other, Smith won 6-74 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in New Haven Challenger back in September 2019.
Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tadas BabelisBabelis (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Sekou BangouraBangoura (4-6 7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Jc AragoneAragone – Connor FarrenFarren (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Petros ChrysochosChrysochos (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Liam CaruanaCaruana – Jordi ArconadaArconada (7-68 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Alexander RitschardRitschard (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Ben PataelPatael – Harrison AdamsAdams (7-5 6-4) – 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
- Martin RedlickiRedlicki – Omni KumarKumar (6-3 6-1) – 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
- Alexander SarkissianSarkissian – Gabriel PetitPetit (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Roy SmithSmith (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Kevin KingKing – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 2-6 6-2) – 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
- Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – See H2H details
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – John-Patrick SmithSmith (0-0) – See H2H details