ANTWERP. Hoang gets by Taberner in the qualifications

Antoine Hoang dispatches Carlos Taberner 6-2 3-6 6-2 in the qualifications in Antwerp on Sunday. Hoang will seek to keep on going in this event against Marius Copil in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Hoang in this set played at a much higher level than Taberner and consequentely he won 6-2 after breaking Taberner in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when the French Player won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

Taberner was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Hoang in the 2^nd game (2-0). However, there was more to do for Carlos to win the set as the French Player succeeded in breaking back in the 3^rd (1-2) game. The Spaniard kept his focus to break Hoang in the 8^th (5-3) game before conquering the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

Hoang in this set was too strong for the Spaniard and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking the Spaniard in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Hoang scored 86 points vs. Taberner’s 65 points.

Antoine served extremely well to win 77% of the points (33/43) behind his first serve, and he won 67% points (12/18) on his second serve. Antoine won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 42% (5/12). On the other side, Carlos was not so effective in converting his break points because he converted only 40% of his break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Hoang and Taberner is 1-0 for Antoine.

Next Match: Antoine Hoang vs. Marius Copil – stats

Hoang will come up against Copil in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Antoine Hoang and Marius Copil since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Antwerp

• Antoine HoangHoang – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Norbert GombosGombos – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Arnaud BovyBovy (6-7⁵ 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Yannick MadenMaden – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Marius CopilCopil – Ruben BemelmansBemelmans (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Feliciano LopezLopez – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andy MurrayMurray – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – See H2H details
• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Hugo DellienDellien (0-0) – See H2H details
• Gilles SimonSimon – Steve DarcisDarcis (0-1) – See H2H details
• Marius CopilCopil – Antoine HoangHoang (0-0) – See H2H details
• Guido PellaPella – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (1-2) – See H2H details
• Norbert GombosGombos – Yannick MadenMaden (0-0) – See H2H details
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (0-0) – See H2H details
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (1-0) – See H2H details
• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (0-1) – See H2H details
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – See H2H details