ANTWERP. Superlative Struff makes light work of Barrere in the 1st round

Jan-Lennard Struff exterminates Gregoire Barrere 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in Antwerp on Tuesday after playing a solid match to play Frances Tiafoe in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Struff had a favorable start in this set after breaking Barrere in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. The German reinforced his lead after breaking Gregoire in the 3^rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).

Gregoire lost the 3^rd game (3-0) when he had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.

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

2^nd set.

Struff had a racing start in this set after breaking Barrere in the 1^st game (1-0). The German extended his lead after breaking Gregoire in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

Barrere lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Jan-Lennard scored 59 points vs. Barrere’s 30 points.

Jan-Lennard served pretty well to win 96% of the points (23/24) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (5/9) on his second serve. Jan-Lennard was pretty focused in converting 71% of the break points that he procured (5/7). On the other side, Barrere wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Struff and Barrere is 1-0 for Jan-Lennard.

Next Match: Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Frances Tiafoe – stats

Struff will compete against Tiafoe in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Jan-Lennard Struff and Frances Tiafoe since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Antwerp

• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Hugo DellienDellien (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yannick MadenMaden (7-6⁷ 6-3) – See score progression
• Gilles SimonSimon – Steve DarcisDarcis (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Marius CopilCopil – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Feliciano LopezLopez – Cameron NorrieNorrie (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jozef KovalikKovalik (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Guido PellaPella – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (5-7 6-4 7-6²) – See score progression
• Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Gilles SimonSimon (4-3) – See H2H details
• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Andy MurrayMurray (0-2) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details
• Marius CopilCopil – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-1) – See H2H details
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – See H2H details