Jan-Lennard Struff tops Roberto Bautista Agut 7-62 7-5 in the 1st round in Dubai on Tuesday. Struff will face Nikoloz Basilashvili in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Jan-Lennard won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Jan-Lennard broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (4-4) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 2.

The Spaniard surrendered the 6th game (3-3) when he was 40-0 up.

2nd set.

Jan-Lennard won the set after he broke Roberto in the 5th (3-2) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Roberto tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) game. Nevertheless, Struff kept the focus before winning the set 7-5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Struff scored 83 points vs. Roberto’s 71 points.

The German served exceptionally well to win 81% of the points (26/32) behind his first serve, and he won 51% points (22/43) on his second serve. The German struck 13 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Jan-Lennard was pretty effective in converting 57% of the break points that he conquered (4/7). On the other side, the Spaniard was pretty focused in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered points (3/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Struff and Bautista-Agut is 1-3 for Roberto.

Highlights Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Roberto Bautista Agut Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili – stats

Struff will fight against Basilashvili

in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Jan-Lennard Struff and Nikoloz Basilashvili face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Basilashvili (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Basilashvili won 6-4 7-63 in the final in Heilbronn Challenger back in 2016.

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