Steven Diez gets the better of Christopher Eubanks 7-61 7-5 in the 3rd round in Ningboo Challenger on Thursday. Diez will face off with Prajnesh Gunneswaran in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, the Canadian won the tiebreak at 1.
2nd set.
Diez won the set after he broke Eubanks 3 times in the 6th (4-2), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 12th (7-5) game. Eubanks tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game. However, the Canadian refused to give way before winning the set 7-5.
The Canadian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Steven scored 86 points vs. the American’s 75 points.
Steven was pretty effective in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered (3/4). On the other side, Christopher was battling in converting his break points because he converted only 22% of his break points (2/9). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Diez and Eubanks is 1-0.
Next Match: Steven Diez vs. Prajnesh Gunneswaran – stats
Diez will square off with Gunneswaran in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Steven Diez and Prajnesh Gunneswaran 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
- Borna GojoGojo – Ze ZhangZhang (6-3 6-74 6-2) – 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
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-4 7-65) – 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