MONTPELLIER RESULTS. Auger-Aliassime conquers Dzumhur in the 1st round of the Open Sud de France

Felix Auger Aliassime victorious over Damir Dzumhur 6-7⁵ 6-2 6-2 in the 1^st round in Montpellier on Tuesday. Auger-Aliassime will have to play Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Auger-Aliassime had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Dzumhur in the 2^nd game (2-0). Yet, Dzumhur refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the Canadian in the 3^rd (1-2) game before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

2^nd set.

Auger-Aliassime in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Damir and without many problems he won 6-2 after breaking the Bosnian in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Damir was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

3^rd set.

Auger-Aliassime overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Dzumhur in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Auger-Aliassime to win the set because Damir managed to break back in the 4^th (1-3) game. Felix maintained his focus to break Damir in the 5^th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Felix scored 112 points vs. Damir’s 92 points.

Auger-Aliassime blasted 11 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Felix won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points as he converted only 43% (6/14). On the other side, Dzumhur had some problems converting his break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Auger-Aliassime and Dzumhur is 1-0 for Felix.

Next Match H2H: Felix Auger Aliassime vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert – stats

Auger-Aliassime will come up against Herbert in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Felix Auger Aliassime and Pierre-Hugues Herbert since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Montpellier

• Alexander BublikBublik – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-7² 6-1 7-6²) – See score progression
• Mikael YmerYmer – Jannik SinnerSinner (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-7⁵ 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Dennis NovakNovak (7-6³ 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Joao SousaSousa (6-2 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Norbert GombosGombos – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Aljaz BedeneBedene (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Gilles SimonSimon – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-8) – See H2H details
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-1) – See H2H details
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alexander BublikBublik – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mikael YmerYmer – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Norbert GombosGombos (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Feliciano LopezLopez (0-0) – See H2H details
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-0) – See H2H details