Dominic Thiem crushes Richard Gasquet 6-4 6-1 in the 1st round in Beijing on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to square off with Zhizhen Zhang in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Dominic conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
2nd set.
Thiem started the set in the best possible way after breaking Gasquet in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Dominic improved his lead after breaking the French Player in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when Thiem won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Austrian scored 66 points vs. the French Player’s 46 points.
Dominic served exceptionally well to win 82% of the points (32/39) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 47% points (7/15) on his second serve. Dominic won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, the French Player wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Thiem and Gasquet is 1-2 for Richard.
Highlights Dominic Thiem vs. Richard Gasquet China Open – Beijing
Next Match: Dominic Thiem vs. Zhizhen Zhang – stats
Thiem will come up against Zhang in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Dominic Thiem and Zhizhen Zhang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Dusan LajovicLajovic (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Guido PellaPella (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- John IsnerIsner – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-62 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-62 7-67) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-4 4-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 3-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-77 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Zhe LiLi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Christian GarinGarin (7-65 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-2 7-67) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-2) – See H2H details
- John IsnerIsner – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Jeremy ChardyChardy (0-0) – See H2H details
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevRublev – Fabio FogniniFognini (1-4) – See H2H details
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-1) – See H2H details