MELBOURNE RESULTS. Guido Pella hustles Smith in the 1st round

Guido Pella prevails over John-Patrick Smith 6-3 7-5 6-4 in the 1^st round in Melbourne on Monday. Pella will fight against Gregoire Barrere in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Pella commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Smith in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Pella to win the set since the Australian succeeded in breaking back in the 7^th (3-4) game. The Argentine kept his cool to break the Australian in the 8^th (5-3) game before managing to win the set (6-3).

Pella was unable to break Smith in the 6^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Argentine conquered in the 11^th game (6-5) before winning the set (7-5).

3^rd set.

Similarly to the 2^nd set, both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Pella conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Pella scored 103 points vs. the Australian’s 80 points.

Guido served pretty well to win 75% of the points (45/60) behind his first serve, and he won 75% points (18/24) on his second serve. Guido won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 40% (4/10). On the other side, the Australian was struggling when converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Pella and Smith is 1-0 for Guido.

Highlights Guido Pella vs. John-Patrick Smith Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Guido Pella vs. Gregoire Barrere – stats

Pella will come up against Barrere in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Guido Pella and Gregoire Barrere since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

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