DELRAY BEACH RESULTS. Steve Johnson bests Laaksonen in the 1st round

Steve Johnson ousts Henri Laaksonen 7-6⁵ 6-4 in the 1^st round in Delray Beach on Tuesday. Johnson will play against Jack Sock in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, Steve won the tiebreak at 5.

2^nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Johnson conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the American scored 68 points vs. Henri’s 63 points.

Steve served pretty well to win 82% of the points (37/45) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (12/20) on his second serve. Johnson struck 10 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The American was stunning in converting all the break points (1/1). On the other side, the Swiss wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Johnson and Laaksonen is 1-0 for Steve.

Next Match H2H: Steve Johnson vs. Jack Sock – stats

Johnson will play Sock in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 7^th time that Steve Johnson and Jack Sock clash against each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Sock (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.

The last time that they played, Sock won 6-4 7-6⁴ in the quarter in Delray Beach back in 2017.

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