ZHUHAI. Superlative De Minaur crushes Millman in the 1st round of the Zhuhai Open

Alex De Minaur breezes past John Millman 6-1 6-3 in the 1^st round in Zhuhai on Tuesday after playing a solid match to fight against Andy Murray in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

De Minaur enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Millman in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for De Minaur to win the set as Millman managed to break back in the 4^th (1-3) game. De Minaur kept his cool to break Millman in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game.

2^nd set.

De Minaur had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Millman in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, there was more to do for De Minaur to win the set since John found the way to break back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. De Minaur maintained his cool to break John in the 4^th (3-1) game before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Alex scored 58 points vs. Millman’s 37 points.

De Minaur was effective in converting 86% of the break points that he procured (6/7). On the other side, John was sharp when converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between De Minaur and Millman is 1-0 for Alex.

Next Match: Alex De Minaur vs. Andy Murray – stats

De Minaur will take on Murray in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Alex De Minaur and Andy Murray since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai

• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-7⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Steve JohnsonJohnson (2-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Casper RuudRuud (6-2 ret.) – 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

Upcoming matches

• Pablo AndujarAndujar – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-1) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-0) – See H2H details
• Di WuWu – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – 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 – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – See H2H details