NEW YORK RESULTS. Miomir Kecmanovic bests Paul in the 1st round

Miomir Kecmanovic dispatches Tommy Paul 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in New York on Monday. Kecmanovic is going to play against Paolo Lorenzi in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that the Serbian conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Kecmanovic had a great start in this set after breaking Paul in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Serbian to win the set as Tommy managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) game. The Serbian maintained his focus to break the American in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).

Tommy was completely wiped out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Serbian scored 70 points vs. Paul’s 55 points.

Miomir served extremely well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (10/20) on his second serve. The Serbian won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points since he converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, Paul was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Kecmanovic and Paul is 1-0 for Miomir.

Next Match H2H: Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Paolo Lorenzi – stats

Kecmanovic will square off with Lorenzi in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Miomir Kecmanovic and Paolo Lorenzi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Lorenzi (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

Tennis Scores in New York

• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-3 0-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Brian ShiShi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Go SoedaSoeda (6-2 6-7² 6-3) – See score progression
• Jason JungJung – Kevin AndersonAnderson (7-6⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Kyle EdmundEdmund – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (4-6 6-4 6-0) – 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
• Marcos GironGiron – Jack SockSock (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Steve JohnsonJohnson (1-3) – See H2H details
• John IsnerIsner – Jordan ThompsonThompson (3-0) – See H2H details
• Jason JungJung – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – See H2H details
• Marcos GironGiron – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kyle EdmundEdmund – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – See H2H details
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (0-1) – See H2H details