THE LAS VEGAS CHALLENGER. Great Pospisil motors past Polansky in the 2nd round

Vasek Pospisil shocks Peter Polansky 6-1 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Las Vegas Challenger on Wednesday after playing a good match to come up against Mitchell Krueger in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Pospisil had a racing start in this set after breaking Polansky in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Pospisil reinforced his lead after breaking Peter in the 4^th (4-0) game before managing to win the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Vasek won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Pospisil had a racing start in this set after breaking Polansky in the 1^st game (1-0). Pospisil managed to boost his lead after breaking Polansky in the 5^th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Vasek scored 57 points vs. Polansky’s 31 points.

Vasek served extremely well to win 89% of the points (24/27) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (9/16) on his second serve. Pospisil blasted 12 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Vasek was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6). On the other side, Polansky wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Pospisil and Polansky is 1-1 for Peter.

Next Match: Vasek Pospisil vs. Mitchell Krueger – stats

Pospisil will face Krueger in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Vasek Pospisil and Mitchell Krueger square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pospisil (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Pospisil won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in Indian Wells back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger

• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Liam BroadyBroady (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Darian KingKing (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-6⁸ 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Peter PolanskyPolansky (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-2 5-3 ret.) – See score progression
• Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Jack SockSock (7-6⁷ 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Roy SmithSmith (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Gonzalo EscobarEscobar – Donald YoungYoung (7-6⁹ 7-5) – See score progression
• Marcos GironGiron – Kevin KingKing (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Emilio GomezGomez – Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool (6-2 6-7² 6-3) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Taro DanielDaniel – Sekou BangouraBangoura (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Jeff WolfWolf (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Blaz RolaRola (6-4 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Gonzalo EscobarEscobar – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – See H2H details
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – See H2H details
• Steve JohnsonJohnson – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – See H2H details
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – See H2H details
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – See H2H details
• Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – See H2H details