Garrett Johns outlasts Noah Rubin 4-6 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in the Cary Challenger on Monday after conquering a huge battle in what was an all-American match. Johns will try to keep the momentum against Denis Kudla in the 2nd round.
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Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Noah clinched in the 9th game (5-4) prior to eventually winning the set (6-4).
Rubin was flawless in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Noah didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 63 points. Noah was the one to win the set after conquering 5 more points than Garrett (34-29). Rubin conceded 6 points on serve (20-6). on the other side of the net, Johns conceded 14 points on serve (23-14).
Johns had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Rubin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was the key and it was sufficient for Johns to win the set (6-3) as there were no other breaks.
Rubin lost the 2nd game (2-0) when he was comfortably leading 40-0.
Garrett converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd game (1-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Rubin was unable to convert any of his 5 break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 5th game (1-3 30-40).
They played 63 points. Johns was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than Noah (35-28). Garrett conceded 11 points on serve (24-11). In addition, on the other side, Noah conceded 11 points on serve (17-11).
Johns conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, Johns broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game to win the set 7-5.
Noah couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 2-5 to 7-5.
Garrett converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 40-A), the 9th (3-5 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Noah was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 30-40).
They played 78 points. Garrett was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than Noah (44-34). Johns dropped 7 points on serve (22-7). on the other side of the court, Noah conceded 22 points on serve (27-22).
Garrett will add to his prize money $ 340 after winning this match. He has won already $ 860 after this win. If he wins the next match, Garrett will add $ 600 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,460 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Garrett scored 108 points vs. Rubin’s 96.
Garrett won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (3/9) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Noah was struggling when converting his break points (only 22% – 2/9). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Johns and Rubin is 1-0 for Garrett.
Draw and next match H2H: Garrett Johns vs. Denis Kudla – stats
Johns will play Kudla in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Garrett Johns and Denis Kudla since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
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- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – William BlumbergBlumberg (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Thomaz BellucciBellucci – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (6-74 6-1 7-67) – Stats and score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Elias YmerYmer (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jack SockSock – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (7-611 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (4-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Guilherme ClezarClezar (7-65 3-2 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-65 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Noah RubinRubin (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov (7-5 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Christian HarrisonHarrison (7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Roberto Cid SuberviCid Subervi (7-65 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Kevin KingKing (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Michael MmohMmoh – Christopher EubanksEubanks (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Denis KudlaKudla (0-0) – H2H details and stats
