DUBAI RESULTS. Inexorable Monfils crushes Uchiyama in the 2nd round

Gael Monfils routs Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-1 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Dubai on Wednesday after playing a good match to come up against Richard Gasquet in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Monfils had a favorable start in this set after breaking Uchiyama in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Monfils managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Yasutaka in the 4^th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).

One of the most important stint of the contest was when Monfils won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Monfils in this set was too strong for the Japanese and without struggling too much he won 6-2. Yasutaka broke the French Player 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. However, the French Player broke his opponent in the 4^th (2-2) game, but that didn’t prevent his to win the set (6-2).

The Japanese was eclipsed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Gael scored 61 points vs. Uchiyama’s 37 points.

Gael was pretty effective in converting 71% of the break points that he procured (5/7). On the other side, Uchiyama had some problems converting his break points (only 17% – 1/6). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Uchiyama is 1-0 for Gael.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. Richard Gasquet – stats

Monfils will square off with Gasquet in the quarter.

This will be the 18^th time that Gael Monfils and Richard Gasquet face off. The head to head is 10-7 for Monfils (see full H2H stats), 3-2 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Monfils won 7-6⁶ 7-5 6-4 in the 1^st round in Wimbledon back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (7-5 3-6 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Dennis NovakNovak (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (7-6³ 6-0) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alexander BublikBublik (7-6¹ 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Richard GasquetGasquet (10-7) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (2-1) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (2-1) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – See H2H details