Alex De Minaur defeats Hugo Dellien 6-1 7-5 in the 1st round in Basel on Monday. De Minaur will seek to keep on going in this event against Alexander Zverev or Taylor Harry Fritz in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
De Minaur didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Dellien in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for De Minaur to win the set since the Bolivian managed to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. The Australian maintained his cool to break the Bolivian in the 6th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when De Minaur won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
2nd set.
Dellien had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking De Minaur in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, Alex was not done to come back to break Dellien 3 times in the 5th (2-3), in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
The Bolivian lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).
Statistics
At the end of the match, De Minaur scored 72 points vs. Dellien’s 57 points.
The Australian was pretty effective in converting 86% of the break points that he conquered (6/7). On the other side, Hugo was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 38% of his break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between De Minaur and Dellien is 1-0 for Alex.
Highlights Alex De Minaur vs. Hugo Dellien Swiss Indoors Basel – Basel
Next Match: Alex De Minaur vs. Alexander Zverev or Taylor Harry Fritz – stats
De Minaur will take on either Alexander Zverev or Taylor Harry Fritz in the 2nd round. The head to head is 0-4 vs. Alexander Zverev and 2-0 vs. Taylor Harry Fritz.
Tennis Scores in Basel
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- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Hugo DellienDellien (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
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- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
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