BASEL RESULTS. Determined Reilly Opelka outlasts Goffin in the 2nd round

Reilly Opelka outlasts David Goffin 6-7⁴ 7-6⁴ 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Basel on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Opelka will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Roberto Bautista Agut in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Finally, Goffin won the breaker at 4.

2^nd set.

Also in this set, nothing could divide these 2 players and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Reilly won the breaker at 4.

3^rd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the American conquered in the 12^th game (7-5).

Statistics

The American won this encounter even if he conquered the same amount of points of Goffin (110 vs. 110).

Reilly served pretty well to win 84% of the points (59/70) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (25/42) on his second serve. Reilly struck 29 aces and he committed 8 double faults. The American was fantastic in converting all the break points (1/1). On the other side, Goffin wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Opelka and Goffin is 1-1.

Highlights Reilly Opelka vs. David Goffin Swiss Indoors Basel – Basel

Next Match: Reilly Opelka vs. Roberto Bautista Agut – stats

Opelka will face Bautista Agut in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Reilly Opelka and Roberto Bautista Agut clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bautista Agut (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Bautista Agut won 6-4 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Shanghai back in October 2019.

Tennis Scores in Basel

• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – David GoffinGoffin (6-7⁴ 7-6⁴ 7-5) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-7⁴ 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Roger FedererFederer – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Roger FedererFederer – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (23-3) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – See H2H details
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-1) – See H2H details
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-0) – See H2H details