Enzo Couacaud downs Donald Young 6-1 3-6 6-3 in the 3rd round in Cary Challenger on Thursday. Couacaud will fight against Filip Peliwo in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Couacaud had a strong start of this set after breaking Young in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. The French Player improved his lead after breaking Donald in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when Enzo won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
2nd set.
The American clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 5th (2-3) game, The American broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
The French Player had no answers in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).
3rd set.
The French Player won the set after he broke Donald in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. The American tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Notwithstanding, Couacaud didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Couacaud scored 86 points vs. the American’s 65 points.
Couacaud was effective when converting 71% of the break points that he procured (5/7). On the other side, Young was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 43% of his break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Couacaud and Young is 1-0.
Next Match: Enzo Couacaud vs. Filip Peliwo – stats
Couacaud will square off with Peliwo in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Enzo Couacaud and Filip Peliwo since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.
The last time that they squared off, Couacaud won 3-6 6-4 6-3 in the 3rd round in Newport Beach Challenger back in January 2019.
Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ben PataelPatael (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Donald YoungYoung (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Jc AragoneAragone – Daniel NguyenNguyen (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (7-60 6-4) – See score progression
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (w/o) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – John-Patrick SmithSmith (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-4 6-73 7-65) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Noah RubinRubin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jc AragoneAragone – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – See H2H details
- Michael MmohMmoh – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – See H2H details