Vasek Pospisil powers past Michael Mmoh 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Las Vegas Challenger on Monday after playing a good match to fight against Peter Polansky in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Pospisil had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Mmoh in the 2nd game (2-0). However, there was more work to do for the Canadian to win the set since Mmoh managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Pospisil maintained his focus to break Michael in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Pospisil in this set was too strong for the American and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Mmoh in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Mmoh was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Vasek scored 61 points vs. Michael’s 37 points.
The Canadian served extremely well to win 96% of the points (24/25) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (11/21) on his second serve. Vasek struck 11 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Canadian was sharp when converting 80% of the break points that he conquered (4/5). On the other side, the American had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 17% of his break points (1/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Pospisil and Mmoh is 2-1.
Next Match: Vasek Pospisil vs. Peter Polansky – stats
Pospisil will square off with Polansky in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Vasek Pospisil and Peter Polansky square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Polansky (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Polansky won 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in Montreal back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger
- Sekou BangouraBangoura – Evan KingKing (6-75 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Jc AragoneAragone – Laurent LokoliLokoli (7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Evan SongSong (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool – Martin RedlickiRedlicki (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jack DraperDraper (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Vasek PospisilPospisil (1-0) – See H2H details
- Gonzalo EscobarEscobar – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – See H2H details
- Blaz RolaRola – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sekou BangouraBangoura – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – See H2H details
- Liam BroadyBroady – Roberto CidCid (0-0) – See H2H details
- Darian KingKing – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dennis NovikovNovikov – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-1) – See H2H details
- Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – See H2H details
- Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – See H2H details
- Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Kevin KingKing (0-0) – See H2H details
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Alex KobeltKobelt (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roy SmithSmith – Marcelo ArevaloArevalo (0-0) – See H2H details