DUBAI RESULTS. Stout Daniel Evans survives Fognini in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships

Daniel Evans survives Fabio Fognini 3-6 6-4 7-5 in the 1^st round in Dubai on Tuesday after winning a huge battle. Evans will seek to keep on going in this event against Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Fognini was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Evans in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Fognini to win the set because the Brit succeeded in breaking back in the 5^th (1-4) game.

One of the most important stint of the contest was when the Italian won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2^nd set.

Daniel won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, Evans broke back in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 10^th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

3^rd set.

Fognini didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Evans in the 1^st game (1-0). Anyhow, Daniel refused to bow to come back to break Fognini 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (3-3) gamein the 12^th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Statistics

After this match, the head to head between Evans and Fognini is 1-0 for Daniel.

Highlights Daniel Evans vs. Fabio Fognini Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Daniel Evans vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert – stats

Evans will face Herbert in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Daniel Evans and Pierre-Hugues Herbert square off. The head to head is 1-0

for Evans (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Herbert won 6-3 6-0 in the 1^st round in Cherbourg Challenger back in 2012.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Fabio FogniniFognini (3-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Alexander BublikBublik – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Dennis NovakNovak – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Joao SousaSousa (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Marin CilicCilic (2-6 7-5 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yen-Hsun LuLu (3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Richard GasquetGasquet – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6² 6-1) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (7-2) – See H2H details
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (3-0) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (11-2) – See H2H details
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – See H2H details
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – See H2H details
• Dennis NovakNovak – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-2) – See H2H details