TENNIS SCORES. Hiroki Moriya beats Purcell in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Challenger

Hiroki Moriya prevails over Max Purcell 4-6 7-6(2) 6-1 in the 3^rd round in on Thursday. Moriya will play Prajnesh Gunneswaran in the quarter.

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 the Australian conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, Moriya won the breaker at 2.

3^rd set.

Moriya had a strong start of this set after breaking Purcell in the 1^st game (1-0). Moriya improved his lead after breaking Max in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before winning the set.

The Australian couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

After this match, the head to head between Moriya and Purcell is 1-0 for Hiroki.

Next Match: Hiroki Moriya vs. Prajnesh Gunneswaran – stats

Moriya will face Gunneswaran in the quarter.

This will be the 3^rd time that Hiroki Moriya and Prajnesh Gunneswaran clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Gunneswaran (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Gunneswaran won 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Chengdu back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in

• Di WuWu – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (6-1 5-7 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Max PurcellPurcell (4-6 7-6(2) 6-1) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrew HarrisHarris – Akira SantillanSantillan (2-6 5-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez – Steven DiezDiez (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-0) – See H2H details
• Di WuWu – Collin AltamiranoAltamirano (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