ANTWERP RESULTS. Ferocious Sinner crushes Monfils in the 2nd round of the European Open

Jannik Sinner stuns Gael Monfils 6-3 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Antwerp on Thursday after playing a good match to fight against Frances Tiafoe in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sinner had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Monfils in the 1^st game (1-0). Sinner improved his lead after breaking Gael in the 9^th (6-3) game before winning the set.

2^nd set.

The Italian in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Gael and consequentely he won 6-2 after breaking the French Player in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Jannik scored 62 points vs. Gael’s 41 points.

Sinner served extremely well to win 81% of the points (17/21) behind his first serve, and he won 74% points (17/23) on his second serve. Sinner won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, the French Player wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Sinner and Monfils is 1-0 for Jannik.

Sinner’s Interview

The Italian commented “I played a very solid game. He did not play his best tennis for sure. It’s not easy if you make the final the year before and then to come here to play a young player and wild card. I think I played solid today. I served good on the important points and I think that was the key today”

Next Match: Jannik Sinner vs. Frances Tiafoe – stats

Sinner will compete against Tiafoe in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Jannik Sinner and Frances Tiafoe since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

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
• 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
• Gilles SimonSimon – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (6-4 7-5) – 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

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