Gael Monfils grounds Joao Sousa 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Rotterdam on Wednesday after playing a superlative match to deal with Gilles Simon in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Monfils conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Sousa in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Monfils to win the set as Joao succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3) game. Monfils kept his cool to break Joao in the 6th (4-2) game before conquering the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Monfils had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Sousa in the 1st game (1-0). Gael reinforced his lead after breaking the Portuguese in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Gael scored 63 points vs. the Portuguese’s 44 points.
Gael won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points because he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, the Portuguese was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Sousa is 4-1 for Gael.
Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Joao Sousa ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Rotterdam
Next Match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. Gilles Simon – stats
Monfils will face Simon in the 2nd round.
This will be the 10th time that Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon square off. The head to head is 7-2 for Simon (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Simon won 0-6 6-0 7-60 in the 1st round in Madrid back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Rotterdam
- David GoffinGoffin – Robin HaaseHaase (3-6 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Radu AlbotAlbot (w/o) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Joao SousaSousa (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-63 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Benoit PairePaire (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-72 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-3 6-72 6-4) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (4-6 7-61 6-1) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-5 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Gilles SimonSimon (2-7) – See H2H details
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexander BublikBublik – Andrey RublevRublev (1-2) – See H2H details
- Jannik SinnerSinner – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – See H2H details