DELRAY BEACH RESULTS. Tiafoe gets the better of Gomez in the 1st round

Frances Tiafoe topples Emilio Gomez 7-6³ 6-2 in the 1^st round in Delray Beach on Monday. Tiafoe will have to play Tommy Paul in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Francis won the set after he broke the Ecuadorian in the 4^th (3-1) game. The Ecuadorian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9^th (5-4) game. Nevertheless, the American refused to give way before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.

2^nd set.

Tiafoe in this set was more solid than Emilio and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Emilio in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Gomez lost the 3^rd game (2-1) when he had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Tiafoe scored 72 points vs. Emilio’s 59 points.

Francis didn’t lose the concentration in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered (3/4). On the other side, Emilio was remarkable in converting all the break points (1/1). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Tiafoe and Gomez is 1-0 for Francis.

Next Match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Tommy Paul – stats

Tiafoe will face Paul in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

The last time that they played, Tiafoe won 6-3 6-1 in the 1^st round in Lexington Challenger back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Delray Beach

• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Steve JohnsonJohnson – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Ernests GulbisGulbis (6-7⁵ 6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (6-4 6-7⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Milos RaonicRaonic – Denis IstominIstomin (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Jack SockSock – Radu AlbotAlbot (3-6 6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Noah RubinRubin – Jason JungJung (6-3 4-3 ret.) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Emilio GomezGomez (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Jiri VeselyVesely (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – John MillmanMillman (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jack SockSock – Steve JohnsonJohnson (4-2) – See H2H details
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Noah RubinRubin – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – See H2H details
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (0-0) – See H2H details
• Tommy PaulPaul – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – See H2H details
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Ugo HumbertHumbert (3-0) – See H2H details