ZHUHAI. Pablo Andujar gets by Johnson in the 1st round

Pablo Andujar aces Steve Johnson 2-6 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in Zhuhai on Tuesday. Andujar will have to play Roberto Bautista Agut in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The American in this set played a much better tennis than the Spaniard and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking the Spaniard in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Pablo had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Johnson had a racing start in this set after breaking Andujar in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, Andujar refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Johnson 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) gamein the 8^th game before winning the set (6-2) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Johnson was powerless in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-2 to 6-2).

3^rd set.

Andujar had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Johnson in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. The Spaniard managed to boost his lead after breaking Johnson in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Andujar and Johnson is 2-0 for Pablo.

Next Match: Pablo Andujar vs. Roberto Bautista Agut – stats

Andujar will come up against Bautista Agut in the 2^nd round.

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

The last time that they played each other, Bautista Agut won 6-4 6-1 in the 3^rd round in Barcelona back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai

• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Casper RuudRuud (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Steve JohnsonJohnson (2-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Di WuWu – Tatsuma ItoIto (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Ze ZhangZhang (7-6⁶ 7-5) – See score progression
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (6-1 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-1) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-0) – 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
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – See H2H details