ANTWERP. Murray stuns Coppejans in the 1st round

Andy Murray stuns Kimmer Coppejans 6-4 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Antwerp on Tuesday. Murray will seek to keep on going in this event against Pablo Cuevas in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Murray conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Coppejans in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, that was not enough for the Brit to win the set because Coppejans succeeded in breaking back in the 5^th (2-3) game. Murray maintained his cool to break the Belgian in the 10^th (6-4) game.

2^nd set.

Coppejans got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Murray in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, Andy was not done to come back to break Coppejans in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 6^th (3-3) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Murray scored 77 points vs. Coppejans’s 63 points.

Andy served very well to win 75% of the points (30/40) behind his first serve. However he won only 45% points (15/33) on his second serve. Murray didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6). On the other side, the Belgian was effective in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Murray and Coppejans is 1-0 for Andy.

Next Match: Andy Murray vs. Pablo Cuevas – stats

Murray will face Cuevas in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Andy Murray and Pablo Cuevas face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Murray (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played, Murray won 6-2 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Beijing back in 2014.

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