TENNIS SCORES. Dominik Koepfer hustles Sugita in the qualifications in Zhuhai

Dominik Koepfer defeats Yuichi Sugita 7-6⁵ 6-3 in the qualifications in Zhuhai on Sunday. Koepfer will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Zhizhen Zhang in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Koepfer conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Sugita in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Dominik to win the set since the Japanese managed to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Dominik maintained his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.

2^nd set.

Koepfer was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Sugita in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, that was not enough for the German to win the set as Sugita managed to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. Koepfer maintained his cool to break the Japanese in the 6^th (4-2) game before conquering the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Koepfer scored 79 points vs. Sugita’s 71 points.

The German served pretty well to win 78% of the points (38/49) behind his first serve. However he won only 40% points (14/35) on his second serve. The German didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Yuichi had some problems in converting his break points since he converted only 33% of his break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Koepfer and Sugita is 1-0 for Dominik.

Next Match: Dominik Koepfer vs. Zhizhen Zhang – stats

Koepfer will take on Zhang in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Dominik Koepfer and Zhizhen Zhang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

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

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• 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