TENNIS SCORES. John-Patrick Smith prevails over Mejia in the 2nd round in the Cary Challenger

John-Patrick Smith prevails over Nicolas Mejia 6-4 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Cary Challenger on Wednesday. Smith will engage against Andreas Seppi in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Australian conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Smith was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Mejia in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Smith to win the set since Nicolas managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. John-Patrick maintained his cool to break Mejia in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before conquering the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, John-Patrick scored 86 points vs. Nicolas’s 74 points.

John-Patrick served very well to win 77% of the points (43/56) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 31% points (8/26) on his second serve. The Australian won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, Nicolas was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points because he converted only 40% of his break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Smith and Mejia is 2-0.

Next Match: John-Patrick Smith vs. Andreas Seppi – stats

Smith will square off with Seppi in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that John-Patrick Smith and Andreas Seppi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Seppi (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Seppi won 6-2 6-4 6-1 in the 1^st round in London back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• John-Patrick SmithSmith – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Jc AragoneAragone – Peter PolanskyPolansky (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ben PataelPatael – Marcos GironGiron (2-6 7-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Ulises BlanchBlanch – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Liam BroadyBroady (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Martin RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-7⁹ 6-2) – See score progression
• Noah RubinRubin – Evan SongSong (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Kevin KingKing (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (1-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Michael MmohMmoh – Alexander SarkissianSarkissian (5-7 7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Liam CaruanaCaruana (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Donald YoungYoung – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – John-Patrick SmithSmith (1-0) – See H2H details
• Donald YoungYoung – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – See H2H details
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – See H2H details
• Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ben PataelPatael (0-0) – See H2H details
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – See H2H details