Prajnesh Gunneswaran ousts Hiroki Moriya 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Shanghai Challenger on Friday. Gunneswaran will face Yasutaka Uchiyama in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Gunneswaran commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Moriya in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Gunneswaran to win the set as Moriya managed to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. Prajnesh maintained his focus to break Moriya in the 10th (6-4) game.
Moriya lost the 10th game (6-4) when he was serving and leading 40-0.
2nd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Gunneswaran conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Prajnesh scored 66 points vs. Hiroki’s 55 points.
Gunneswaran served pretty well to win 83% of the points (24/29) behind his first serve, and he won 61% points (14/23) on his second serve. The Indian was sharp when converting 60% of the break points that he conquered (3/5). On the other side, Moriya was remarkable in converting all the break points (1/1). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Gunneswaran and Moriya is 1-0 for Prajnesh.
Next Match: Prajnesh Gunneswaran vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama – stats
Gunneswaran will take on Uchiyama in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Yasutaka Uchiyama since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Andrew HarrisHarris (7-61 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Di WuWu (0-0) – See H2H details
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
