SHANGHAI. Pospisil shocks Schwartzman in the 1st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters

Vasek Pospisil upsets Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 7-6² 6-2 in the 1^st round in Shanghai on Monday. Pospisil will fight against Joao Sousa in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, the Canadian won the tiebreak at 2.

Vasek missed the chance to break Diego in the 4^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Pospisil had a strong start of this set after breaking Schwartzman in the 1^st game (1-0). Vasek improved his lead after breaking Schwartzman in the 7^th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Pospisil scored 70 points vs. Diego’s 46 points.

Pospisil served pretty well to win 100% of the points (33/33) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (12/20) on his second serve. Vasek struck 11 aces and he committed 3 double faults. The Canadian won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 29% (2/7). On the other side, Diego wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Pospisil and Schwartzman is 2-0 for Vasek.

Next Match: Vasek Pospisil vs. Joao Sousa – stats

Pospisil will face Sousa in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 5^th time that Vasek Pospisil and Joao Sousa clash against each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Sousa (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Sousa won 6-7⁴ 6-4 7-6⁰ in the 2^nd round in Chengdu back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Gilles SimonSimon (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-5 6-7¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Christian GarinGarin – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (7-6² 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (2-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-6(4) 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andy MurrayMurray – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (0-0) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (1-0) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-0) – See H2H details
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Roger FedererFederer (1-1) – See H2H details
• Zhe LiLi – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Guido PellaPella – John MillmanMillman (1-0) – See H2H details
• David GoffinGoffin – Richard GasquetGasquet (2-1) – See H2H details
• Joao SousaSousa – Vasek PospisilPospisil (4-0) – See H2H details
• Ze ZhangZhang – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-1) – See H2H details
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Benoit PairePaire (0-3) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Jeremy ChardyChardy (3-1) – See H2H details
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Borna CoricCoric (2-0) – See H2H details
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John IsnerIsner (0-1) – See H2H details
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details