Dennis Novak beats Gianluca Mager 6-1 7-5 in the qualifications in Stockholm on Monday. Novak will square off with Sam Querrey in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Austrian was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking the Italian 2 times and win the set 6-1.
The Italian was powerless in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
2nd set.
Mager won the set after he broke Dennis in the 4th (3-1) game. Dennis tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Anyhow, Mager managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set at the following breaker at 15.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Novak scored 66 points vs. the Italian’s 52 points.
Novak was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (4/8). On the other side, the Italian didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Novak and Mager is 1-0 for Dennis.
Next Match: Dennis Novak vs. Sam Querrey – stats
Novak will play Querrey in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Dennis Novak and Sam Querrey since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Stockholm
- Dennis NovakNovak – Gianluca MagerMager (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Lucas RenardRenard (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Oscar OtteOtte (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Yuichi SugitaSugita (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – See H2H details
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – See H2H details
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – John MillmanMillman (1-1) – See H2H details
- Oscar OtteOtte – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elias YmerYmer – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – See H2H details
- Tommy PaulPaul – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-0) – See H2H details
- Mikael YmerYmer – Joao SousaSousa (0-1) – See H2H details