Marcel Granollers tops Alexei Popyrin 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in Shanghai on Saturday. Granollers will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Vasek Pospisil in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Spaniard conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Spaniard conquered in the 5th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 69 points vs. the Australian’s 57 points.
Marcel served very well to win 84% of the points (37/44) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (5/10) on his second serve. The Spaniard won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (2/6). On the other side, Popyrin wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Granollers and Popyrin is 1-1.
Next Match: Marcel Granollers vs. Vasek Pospisil – stats
Granollers will compete against Pospisil in the qualifications.
This will be the 2nd time that Marcel Granollers and Vasek Pospisil square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Granollers (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Granollers won 4-6 6-4 ret. in the 1st round in Nottingham back in 2015.
Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Di WuWu (7-63 7-65) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Yecong HeHe (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-77 6-2) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Tatsuma ItoIto (4-6 7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Nicolas JarryJarry (7-64 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 3-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero – Viktor TroickiTroicki (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcel GranollersGranollers – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Runhao HuaHua (3-6 6-0 7-62) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-3 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (1-1) – See H2H details
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Christian GarinGarin (0-1) – See H2H details
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (1-0) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – See H2H details
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Marin CilicCilic (2-4) – See H2H details
- Zhe LiLi – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – See H2H details
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Marcel GranollersGranollers (0-1) – See H2H details
- Daniel EvansEvans – Jeremy ChardyChardy (0-1) – See H2H details
- Guido PellaPella – John MillmanMillman (1-0) – See H2H details
- David GoffinGoffin – Richard GasquetGasquet (2-1) – See H2H details
- Joao SousaSousa – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-1) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Radu AlbotAlbot (2-0) – See H2H details
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (4-2) – See H2H details
- Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero – Bradley KlahnKlahn (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexander BublikBublik – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-1) – See H2H details
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – See H2H details
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevRublev – Borna CoricCoric (2-0) – See H2H details
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-2) – See H2H details
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John IsnerIsner (0-1) – See H2H details