Alexei Popyrin prevails over Xin Gao 7-62 6-2 in the qualifications in Chengdu on Saturday. Popyrin will play Denis Istomin in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Popyrin won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, The Australian broke back in the 7th (3-4) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 2.
2nd set.
Popyrin was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Gao in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. The Australian managed to boost his lead after breaking Xin in the 8th (6-2) game before managing to win the set.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 73 points vs. Gao’s 56 points.
Alexei served very well to win 87% of the points (33/38) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (12/24) on his second serve. Popyrin blasted 13 aces and he committed 6 double faults. Alexei was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Xin was remarkable in converting all the break points (1/1). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Popyrin and Gao is 1-0 for Alexei.
Next Match: Alexei Popyrin vs. Denis Istomin – stats
Popyrin will face Istomin in the qualifications.
This will be the 2nd time that Alexei Popyrin and Denis Istomin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Istomin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Istomin won 6-4 6-0 in the qualifications in Dubai back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Chengdu
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Denis IstominIstomin – Bernard TomicTomic (6-1 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Luke SavilleSaville – Andrew HarrisHarris (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Xin GaoGao (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-5 3-6 7-62) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Harry BourchierBourchier (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jie CuiCui (6-74 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Zhe LiLi – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – See H2H details
- Daniel EvansEvans – Yan BaiBai (0-0) – See H2H details
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – See H2H details
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-1) – See H2H details
- Luke SavilleSaville – Jason JungJung (0-0) – See H2H details
- Christian GarinGarin – Kyle EdmundEdmund (0-0) – See H2H details
- Hyeon ChungChung – Joao SousaSousa (1-0) – See H2H details
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – See H2H details
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Denis IstominIstomin (0-1) – See H2H details