Andreas Seppi outlasts Damir Dzumhur 6-3 1-6 7-66 in the 1st round in New York on Monday after conquering a huge battle. Seppi will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Steve Johnson in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Andreas conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Andreas broke back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
2nd set.
Dzumhur was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking the Italian 2 times and win the set 6-1.
The Italian had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
3rd set.
Andreas clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Andreas broke back in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 6.
Statistics
The Italian won this match even if he conquered less points than the Bosnian (94 vs. 100).
Andreas won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 33% (3/9). On the other side, Dzumhur was effective when converting 57% of the break points that he procured points (4/7). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Seppi and Dzumhur is 3-1 for Andreas.
Next Match H2H: Andreas Seppi vs. Steve Johnson – stats
Seppi will face Johnson in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Andreas Seppi and Steve Johnson fight 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 squared off, Seppi won 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Australian Open back in 2019.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Marcos GironGiron – Jack SockSock (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-3 1-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Tommy PaulPaul (6-4 6-2) – 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
