John Millman clobbers Taro Daniel 6-4 6-0 in the quarter in Tokyo on Friday after playing a good match to square off with Reilly Opelka in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Daniel conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Millman in the 1st game (1-0). However, the Australian managed to stage a great comeback to break Daniel 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
A crucial moment of the match was when John won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
2nd set.
Daniel lost her way in this set and the Australian won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Millman scored 62 points vs. Taro’s 43 points.
Millman was effective in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (6/12). On the other side, Daniel didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Millman and Daniel is 1-1.
Highlights John Millman vs. Taro Daniel Rakuten Japan Open – Tokyo
Next Match: John Millman vs. Reilly Opelka – stats
Millman will fight against Opelka in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between John Millman and Reilly Opelka since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lucas PouillePouille (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Taro DanielDaniel (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Hyeon ChungChung (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – David GoffinGoffin (6-1) – See H2H details
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – See H2H details
