STOCKHOLM. Mager ousts Yitbarek in the qualifications of the Intrum Stockholm Open

Gianluca Mager ousts Simon Yitbarek 6-2 7-5 in the qualifications in Stockholm on Sunday. Mager will engage against Dennis Novak in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Italian in this set was too strong for the Swede and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Simon in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Simon was powerless in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Mager had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Yitbarek in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more to do for Gianluca to win the set since Simon succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Mager kept his cool to break the Swede in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Gianluca scored 69 points vs. the Swede’s 48 points.

Mager served very well to win 91% of the points (31/34) behind his first serve. However he won only 46% points (11/24) on his second serve. Gianluca was sharp when converting 80% of the break points that he procured (4/5). On the other side, Simon was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Mager and Yitbarek is 1-0 for Gianluca.

Next Match: Gianluca Mager vs. Dennis Novak – stats

Mager will fight against Novak in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Gianluca Mager and Dennis Novak since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

The last time that they competed against each other, Mager won 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in Guadalajara Challenger back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Stockholm

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

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• 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