THE LAS VEGAS CHALLENGER. Peniston surprises Draper in the 1st round

Ryan Peniston upsets Jack Draper 7-5 7-6³ in the 1^st round in Las Vegas Challenger on Monday. Peniston will play Darian King in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Draper started the set strong after breaking Peniston in the 2^nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, Ryan refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Draper 3 times in the 3^rd (1-2), in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Peniston wasted a good opportunity to break Jack in the 5^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Jack was outplayed in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).

2^nd set.

Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, Ryan won the breaker at 3.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Ryan scored 91 points vs. Draper’s 77 points.

Ryan won this match even if he was struggling in converting his break points since he converted only 25% (3/12). On the other side, Draper was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 40% of his break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Peniston and Draper is 1-0.

Next Match: Ryan Peniston vs. Darian King – stats

Peniston will compete against King in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Ryan Peniston and Darian King since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger

• Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Alex KobeltKobelt (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Kevin KingKing – Collin AltamiranoAltamirano (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Roy SmithSmith – Marcelo ArevaloArevalo (6-2 4-6 6-3) – 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
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jack DraperDraper (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-2) – 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
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-1 6-3) – 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
• 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

• Donald YoungYoung – Gonzalo EscobarEscobar (0-0) – See H2H details
• Peter PolanskyPolansky – Vasek PospisilPospisil (1-0) – See H2H details
• 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