STOCKHOLM. Stebe stuns Chung in the qualifications of the Intrum Stockholm Open

Cedrik-Marcel Stebe upsets Hyeon Chung 3-6 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in Stockholm on Sunday. Stebe will engage against Oscar Otte in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Chung had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Stebe in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break resulted decisive for Chung to win the set (6-3) as no one dropped a serve anymore.

2^nd set.

Stebe had a great start in this set after breaking Chung in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the German to win the set since the Korean found the way to break back in the 5^th (1-4) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when the German won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

3^rd set.

Chung had a racing start in this set after breaking Stebe in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, Stebe managed to stage a great comeback to break the Korean 3 times in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 7^th (4-3) gamein the 9^th game before winning the set (6-3) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Chung lost the 7^th game (4-3) when he was serving and leading 40-0.

The Korean couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the German scored 94 points vs. Chung’s 89 points.

Cedrik-Marcel won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 29% (5/17). On the other side, Hyeon was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (3/6). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Stebe and Chung is 1-0 for Cedrik-Marcel.

Next Match: Cedrik-Marcel Stebe vs. Oscar Otte – stats

Stebe will come up against Otte in the qualifications.

This will be the 2^nd time that Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and Oscar Otte clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Stebe (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Stebe won 6-7² 7-6² 6-1 in the qualifications in Hamburg back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Stockholm

• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Lucas RenardRenard – Ernests GulbisGulbis (7-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Gianluca MagerMager – Simon YitbarekYitbarek (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Markus ErikssonEriksson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Hyeon ChungChung (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Dennis NovakNovak – Viktor TroickiTroicki (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Tobias KamkeKamke (7-5 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Oscar OtteOtte – Tommy RobredoRobredo (6-0 4-6 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-0) – See H2H details
• Daniel EvansEvans – Bernard TomicTomic (3-1) – See H2H details
• Radu AlbotAlbot – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – See H2H details
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Oscar OtteOtte (1-0) – See H2H details
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – John MillmanMillman (1-1) – See H2H details
• Gianluca MagerMager – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – See H2H details
• Brayden SchnurSchnur – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – See H2H details
• Tommy PaulPaul – Lucas RenardRenard (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mikael YmerYmer – Joao SousaSousa (0-1) – See H2H details