Damir Dzumhur routs Brayden Schnur 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Zhuhai on Sunday after playing a solid match to square off with Marco Cecchinato in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Schnur was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Dzumhur in the 2nd game (2-0). Yet, the Bosnian managed to stage a great comeback to break Brayden 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Schnur was outplayed in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Dzumhur conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Schnur in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. The Bosnian reinforced his lead after breaking Brayden in the 3rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Dzumhur missed the opportunity to break Brayden in the 7th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
A crucial moment of the match was when Damir 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, Dzumhur scored 63 points vs. the Canadian’s 42 points.
Dzumhur served exceptionally well to win 75% of the points (24/32) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (7/14) on his second serve. The Bosnian won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Brayden was absolutely great in converting all the break points (1/1). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Dzumhur and Schnur is 1-0 for Damir.
Next Match: Damir Dzumhur vs. Marco Cecchinato – stats
Dzumhur will fight against Cecchinato in the 1st round.
This will be the 6th time that Damir Dzumhur and Marco Cecchinato fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Cecchinato (see full H2H stats), but Dzumhur has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Cecchinato won 4-0 ret. in the 1st round in Carlo back in April 2019.
Tennis Scores in Zhuhai
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Yuichi SugitaSugita (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-2 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Ze ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Di WuWu (0-0) – See H2H details
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-2) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-1) – See H2H details
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Andy MurrayMurray (1-0) – See H2H details
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (1-4) – See H2H details
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Andreas SeppiSeppi (3-1) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – See H2H details
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – See H2H details
- Casper RuudRuud – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-0) – See H2H details
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – See H2H details