MARSEILLE RESULTS. Felix Auger-Aliassime topples Travaglia in the 1st round after saving 2 match points

Felix Auger Aliassime wins against Stefano Travaglia 6-7³ 7-6⁶ 6-3 in the 1^st round in Marseille on Wednesday. Auger-Aliassime will fight against Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Stefano conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 4^th (1-3) game, Stefano broke back in the 9^th (4-5) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.

Travaglia missed the chance to break Auger-Aliassime in the 1^st game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, Felix won the breaker at 6 after saving 2 match points when he was 4-6 down.

3^rd set.

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

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Canadian scored 108 points vs. Stefano’s 107 points.

Auger-Aliassime served extremely well to win 82% of the points (75/92) behind his first serve. Nonetheless he won only 31% points (10/32) on his second serve. Auger-Aliassime blasted 13 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Auger-Aliassime was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that he conquered (2/3). On the other side, Travaglia had some problems converting his break points (only 10% – 1/10). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Auger-Aliassime and Travaglia is 1-0 for Felix.

Next Match H2H: Felix Auger Aliassime vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert – stats

Auger-Aliassime will fight against Herbert in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Felix Auger Aliassime and Pierre-Hugues Herbert clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Herbert (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they played each other, Herbert won 7-6² 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Montpellier back in February 2020.

Tennis Scores in Marseille

• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Dennis NovakNovak (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-7³ 7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Norbert GombosGombos (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Gilles SimonSimon – Harold MayotMayot (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Marin CilicCilic – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (3-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Antoine HoangHoang (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikael YmerYmer – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-4 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Alexander BublikBublik – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-4 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Gilles SimonSimon – Aljaz BedeneBedene (0-3) – See H2H details
• Marin CilicCilic – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – See H2H details
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-0) – See H2H details
• David GoffinGoffin – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (1-0) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details