Taro Daniel overcomes Facundo Arguello 6-2 6-4 in the 3rd round in Szczecin Challenger on Thursday. Daniel is going to play against Marco Cecchinato in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Daniel overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Arguello in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Japanese to win the set as the Argentine succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) game. Daniel maintained his focus to break Facundo in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
2nd set.
Daniel started the set strong after breaking Arguello in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. However, that wasn’t sufficient for Daniel to win the set since Facundo succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (2-4) game.
A crucial moment of the match was when Daniel won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Daniel scored 60 points vs. Facundo’s 45 points.
The Japanese served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 47% points (8/17) on his second serve. Daniel didn’t lose the focus when converting 63% of the break points that he procured (5/8). On the other side, Facundo was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 29% of his break points (2/7). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Daniel and Arguello is 2-0 for Taro.
Next Match: Taro Daniel vs. Marco Cecchinato – stats
Daniel will compete against Cecchinato in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Taro Daniel and Marco Cecchinato clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cecchinato (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Cecchinato won 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in Rio de Janeiro back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Szczecin Challenger
- Taro DanielDaniel – Facundo ArguelloArguello (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Pawel CiasCias (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jeremy JahnJahn – Gianluca MagerMager (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (5-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Jeremy JahnJahn (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – See H2H details
- Taro DanielDaniel – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-1) – See H2H details
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (0-0) – See H2H details
