Borna Gojo overcomes Ze Zhang 6-3 6-74 6-2 in the 3rd round in Ningboo Challenger on Thursday. Gojo will play against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Gojo enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Zhang in the 2nd game (2-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Gojo to win the set since Ze succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. The Croatian kept his focus to break the Chinese in the 4th (3-1) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, Ze won the breaker at 4.
3rd set.
Gojo started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Zhang in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Nevertheless, there was more to do for Gojo to win the set as Ze succeeded in breaking back in the 7th (2-5) game. Borna maintained his focus to break Ze in the 8th (6-2) game.
A crucial moment of the match was when Borna won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Gojo scored 97 points vs. Zhang’s 82 points.
The Croatian served exceptionally well to win 82% of the points (42/51) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 46% points (18/39) on his second serve. The Croatian didn’t lose the focus when converting 63% of the break points that he conquered (5/8). On the other side, Ze was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that he conquered points (2/3). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Gojo and Zhang is 1-0.
Next Match: Borna Gojo vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – stats
Gojo will square off with Davidovich Fokina in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Borna Gojo and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Ningboo Challenger
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Tsung-Hua YangYang (7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Steven DiezDiez – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-61 7-5) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Akira SantillanSantillan (6-75 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (7-65 7-63) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Ze ZhangZhang (6-3 6-74 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Bradley KlahnKlahn (0-1) – See H2H details
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – See H2H details
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – See H2H details
