Frances Tiafoe gets by Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Antwerp on Thursday. Tiafoe will face off with Jannik Sinner in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the American conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Francis won the set after he broke the German in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (3-2) game. Jan-Lennard tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Notwithstanding, Tiafoe didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-4.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the American scored 68 points vs. Struff’s 57 points.
Francis was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (3/6). On the other side, Struff was struggling in converting his break points since he converted only 14% of his break points (1/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tiafoe and Struff is 1-0 for Francis.
Next Match: Frances Tiafoe vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
Tiafoe will face Sinner in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Frances Tiafoe and Jannik Sinner since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Antwerp
- Andy MurrayMurray – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marius CopilCopil – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-4 5-7 7-67) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-3 6-2) – 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