THE LAS VEGAS CHALLENGER. Mejia shocks Bellucci in the 1st round of the the Las Vegas Challenger

Nicolas Mejia upsets Thomaz Bellucci 4-6 6-1 6-3 in the 1^st round in Las Vegas Challenger on Monday. Mejia will seek to keep on going in this event against Christopher O Connell in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Brazilian conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Bellucci had a favorable start in this set after breaking Mejia in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Mejia succeeded in coming back to break the Brazilian 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

Thomaz was unable to find the solution in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Mejia won the set after he broke Bellucci 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. Bellucci tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (4-2) game. Anyhow, Nicolas refused to give way before winning the set 6-3.

The Brazilian lost the 3^rd game (2-1) when he had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Colombian won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Nicolas scored 93 points vs. Bellucci’s 78 points.

The Colombian was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (6/12). On the other side, the Brazilian wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 33% of his break points (3/9). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Mejia and Bellucci is 1-0.

Next Match: Nicolas Mejia vs. Christopher O Connell – stats

Mejia will square off with O Connell in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mejia and Christopher O Connell since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger

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• Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Alex KobeltKobelt (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Kevin KingKing – Collin AltamiranoAltamirano (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Sekou BangouraBangoura – Evan KingKing (6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jack DraperDraper (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 2-6 6-2) – 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
• Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool – Martin RedlickiRedlicki (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Evan SongSong (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Dennis NovikovNovikov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Liam BroadyBroady – Roberto CidCid (6-3 2-6 7-6(3)) – See score progression
• Gonzalo EscobarEscobar – Sebastian KordaKorda (6-7(1) 6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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• Steve JohnsonJohnson – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jack SockSock – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (0-0) – See H2H details
• Liam BroadyBroady – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – See H2H details
• Darian KingKing – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kevin KingKing – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – See H2H details
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – See H2H details
• Nicola KuhnKuhn – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-1) – See H2H details
• Roy SmithSmith – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – See H2H details