Steve Johnson survives Tennys Sandgren 6-75 6-3 7-63 in the 1st round in New York on Monday after conquering a huge battle. Johnson will have to play Andreas Seppi in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Sandgren clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 9th (4-5) game, Sandgren broke back in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.
2nd set.
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Steve conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
Steve missed the opportunity to break Sandgren in the 6th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
3rd set.
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, Johnson won the breaker at 3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Johnson scored 108 points vs. Sandgren’s 103 points.
Steve served extremely well to win 82% of the points (55/67) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (27/47) on his second serve. Johnson won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points because he converted only 25% (2/8). On the other side, Tennys was not so effective in converting his break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Johnson and Sandgren is 2-0 for Steve.
Next Match H2H: Steve Johnson vs. Andreas Seppi – stats
Johnson will play Seppi in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Steve Johnson and Andreas Seppi clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Johnson (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Seppi won 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Melbourne back in 2019.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Marcos GironGiron – Jack SockSock (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Tommy PaulPaul (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-3 1-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-75 6-3 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ivo KarlovicKarlovic – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – See H2H details
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Steve JohnsonJohnson (1-3) – See H2H details
- Go SoedaSoeda – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-0) – See H2H details
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jason JungJung – Kevin AndersonAnderson (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marcos GironGiron – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – See H2H details
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (1-0) – See H2H details
- Brian ShiShi – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – See H2H details