DUBAI RESULTS. Gael Monfils bests Fucsovics in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships

Gael Monfils beats Marton Fucsovics 6-4 7-5 in the 1^st round in Dubai on Monday. Monfils will fight against Yen-Hsun Lu or Yasutaka Uchiyama in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Fucsovics had a strong start of this set after breaking Monfils in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, the French Player found the way to come back to break Marton 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 8^th (5-3) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Gael failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 30.

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 Gael conquered in the 12^th game (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the French Player scored 92 points vs. Marton’s 81 points.

Monfils won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points because he converted only 27% (4/15). On the other side, Marton was effective in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Fucsovics is 2-0 for Gael.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Marton Fucsovics Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. Yen-Hsun Lu or Yasutaka Uchiyama – stats

Monfils will take on either Yen-Hsun Lu or Yasutaka Uchiyama in the 2^nd round. The head to head is 4-0 vs. Yen-Hsun Lu and 0-0 vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6² 6-1) – See score progression
• Richard GasquetGasquet – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression

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• Daniel EvansEvans – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – See H2H details
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• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – See H2H details
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (1-0) – See H2H details
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details