John Millman crushes Lloyd Harris 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Tokyo on Thursday after playing a good match to deal with Taro Daniel in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that John conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Millman had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Harris in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Yet, there was more to do for the Australian to win the set since Lloyd succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (1-5) game.
John failed to serve out the set when leading 5-0 to be broken at 40.
A crucial moment of the match was when Millman 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, Millman scored 59 points vs. Lloyd’s 43 points.
John served pretty well to win 81% of the points (29/36) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 42% points (8/19) on his second serve. John didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that he procured (4/7). On the other side, Lloyd was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Millman and Harris is 1-0 for John.
Highlights John Millman vs. Lloyd Harris Rakuten Japan Open – Tokyo
Next Match: John Millman vs. Taro Daniel – stats
Millman will play Daniel in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that John Millman and Taro Daniel clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Daniel (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Daniel won 6-4 7-67 in the 1st round in Salem back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Taro DanielDaniel – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Hyeon ChungChung – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (7-65 7-62) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-72 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Gilles SimonSimon (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lucas PouillePouille (2-0) – See H2H details
- John MillmanMillman – Taro DanielDaniel (0-1) – See H2H details
- David GoffinGoffin – Hyeon ChungChung (2-1) – See H2H details
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details