ANTWERP RESULTS. Marius Copil shocks Schwartzman in the 2nd round

Marius Copil upsets Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 6-4 5-7 7-6⁷ in the 2^nd round in Antwerp on Thursday. Copil will have to play Andy Murray in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Copil didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Schwartzman in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for the Romanian to win the set because Schwartzman succeeded in breaking back in the 9^th (4-5) game. The Romanian kept his focus to break Diego in the 10^th (6-4) game.

The Argentine lost the 10^th game (6-4) when he had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

2^nd set.

Schwartzman came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Copil in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Diego to win the set because the Romanian managed to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. The Argentine kept his focus to break Marius in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Copil lost the 1^st game (1-0) when he was 40-0 up.

3^rd set.

Marius conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 7^th (3-4) game, Marius broke back in the 8^th (4-4) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 7.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Marius scored 114 points vs. Diego’s 112 points.

The Romanian served pretty well to win 77% of the points (49/64) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 46% points (22/48) on his second serve. The Romanian fired 13 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Copil didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that he procured (4/7). On the other side, the Argentine was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (4/8). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Copil and Schwartzman is 1-1.

Next Match: Marius Copil vs. Andy Murray – stats

Copil will play Murray in the quarter.

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

The last time that they competed against each other, Murray won 6-7⁵ 6-3 7-6⁴ in the 3^rd round in Washington back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Antwerp

• Andy MurrayMurray – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Marius CopilCopil – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-4 5-7 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Guido PellaPella – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Feliciano LopezLopez (6-7⁴ 6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Gilles SimonSimon – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (6-4 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andy MurrayMurray – Marius CopilCopil (2-0) – See H2H details
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Gilles SimonSimon (4-3) – See H2H details
• Guido PellaPella – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – See H2H details