ZHUHAI. Adrian Mannarino wins against Zhang in the 1st round of the Zhuhai Open

Adrian Mannarino aces Ze Zhang 7-6⁶ 7-5 in the 1^st round in Zhuhai on Monday. Mannarino will face off with Stefanos Tsitsipas in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Zhang didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Mannarino in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, the French Player refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Ze in the 4^th (2-2) game before winning the set at the breaker at 6.

2^nd set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Mannarino conquered in the 11^th game (6-5) before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Adrian scored 82 points vs. Ze’s 71 points.

The French Player served extremely well to win 79% of the points (37/47) behind his first serve, and he won 67% points (14/21) on his second serve. Adrian won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points since he converted only 40% (2/5). On the other side, Ze was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Mannarino and Zhang is 1-0 for Adrian.

Next Match: Adrian Mannarino vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas – stats

Mannarino will face Tsitsipas in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Adrian Mannarino and Stefanos Tsitsipas clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Tsitsipas won 6-2 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Madrid back in May 2019.

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai

• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Ze ZhangZhang (7-6⁶ 7-5) – See score progression
• Di WuWu – Tatsuma ItoIto (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-1 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-0) – See H2H details
• Steve JohnsonJohnson – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-1) – See H2H details
• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Andy MurrayMurray (1-0) – See H2H details
• Di WuWu – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (1-4) – See H2H details
• Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Andreas SeppiSeppi (3-1) – See H2H details
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – See H2H details
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-0) – 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