Andy Murray shocks Juan Ignacio Londero 2-6 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Shanghai on Monday. Murray will play against Fabio Fognini in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Argentine in this set played at a much higher level than Murray and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Andy in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Brit lost the 7th game (5-2) when he had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
The Brit was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
2nd set.
Murray had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Ignacio Londero in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Murray managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the Argentine in the 8th (6-2) game before managing to win the set.
3rd set.
Andy won the set after he broke Juan in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. Ignacio Londero tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. However, Andy refused to give way before winning the set 6-3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Andy scored 94 points vs. Juan’s 87 points.
Andy struck 10 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Andy won this match even if he had a tough time in converting his break points because he converted only 31% (4/13). On the other side, Ignacio Londero had some problems in converting his break points since he converted only 30% of his break points (3/10). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Murray and Ignacio Londero is 1-0 for Andy.
Highlights Andy Murray vs. Juan Ignacio Londero Shanghai Rolex Masters – Shanghai
Next Match: Andy Murray vs. Fabio Fognini – stats
Murray will come up against Fognini in the 2nd round.
This will be the 8th time that Andy Murray and Fabio Fognini face off. The head to head is 4-3 for Murray (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Murray won 6-2 4-6 6-1 7-5 in the 3rd round in Wimbledon back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Ze ZhangZhang (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Christian GarinGarin – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- 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
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-5 6-71 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Gilles SimonSimon (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (7-62 6-75 6-4) – See score progression
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-1 6-3) – 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
Upcoming matches
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Andy MurrayMurray (3-4) – 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
- 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
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-1) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Dominic ThiemThiem (0-5) – 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