TOKYO. Immense Millman exterminates Harris in the 2nd round of the Rakuten Japan Open

John Millman crushes Lloyd Harris 6-3 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Tokyo on Thursday after playing a good match to deal with Taro Daniel in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that John conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Millman had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Harris in the 1^st 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 6^th (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 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 1^st 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