Benoit Paire overcomes Richard Gasquet 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Metz on Wednesday. Paire will seek to keep on going in this event against Gregoire Barrere in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Richard conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, the set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Benoit conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Paire won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, Benoit broke back in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
Richard was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).
Statistics
Paire won this contest even if he conquered less points than Gasquet (77 vs. 78).
Benoit served exceptionally well to win 86% of the points (36/42) behind his first serve. Nonetheless he won only 46% points (16/35) on his second serve. Paire blasted 15 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Paire was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Gasquet had some problems 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 demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Paire and Gasquet is 2-7 for Richard.
Next Match: Benoit Paire vs. Gregoire Barrere – stats
Paire will fight against Barrere in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Benoit Paire and Gregoire Barrere since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
The last time that they played, Paire won 6-4 3-6 6-4 in the final in Quimper Challenger back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in Metz
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Antoine HoangHoang (3-6 7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Richard GasquetGasquet (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Gilles SimonSimon (7-6(9) 6-2) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- David GoffinGoffin – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (1-1) – See H2H details
- Yannick MadenMaden – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – See H2H details
- Benoit PairePaire – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (0-3) – See H2H details
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – See H2H details
