THE LAS VEGAS CHALLENGER. Sekou Bangoura bests King in the 1st round

Sekou Bangoura bests Evan King 6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-4 in the 1^st round in Las Vegas Challenger on Monday. Bangoura will play Taro Daniel in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, King won the breaker at 5.

2^nd set.

Also in this set, neither player conceded a service game. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, Sekou won the breaker at 4.

3^rd set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Sekou conquered in the 10^th game (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Sekou scored 118 points vs. King’s 113 points.

Sekou served very well to win 81% of the points (61/75) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (26/45) on his second serve. Bangoura fired 11 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Sekou won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 20% (1/5). On the other side, Evan wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Bangoura and King is 1-1.

Next Match: Sekou Bangoura vs. Taro Daniel – stats

Bangoura will play Daniel in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Sekou Bangoura and Taro Daniel since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.

The last time that they locked horns, Daniel won 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in Savannah Challenger back in 2013.

Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger

• Sekou BangouraBangoura – Evan KingKing (6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jack DraperDraper (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Evan SongSong (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool – Martin RedlickiRedlicki (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Jc AragoneAragone – Laurent LokoliLokoli (7-6(5) 7-5) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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• Sekou BangouraBangoura – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – See H2H details
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