Egor Gerasimov beats Andy Murray 7-6(8) 6-1 in the 1st round in Montpellier on Tuesday. The match lasted 1 hour and 44 minutes. Murray will now head to Rotterdam where he has been awarded a wildeard.
Gerasimov added to his prize money € 1,500 after winning this match. He has won already € 5,500 after this win. If he wins the next match, Gerasimov will add € 2,700 to his earnings to get in total € 8,200 in total.
Highlights Egor Gerasimov vs. Andy Murray Open Sud de France – Montpellier
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:44
At the end of the match, Egor scored 77 points vs. Murray’s 59.
Gerasimov
Gerasimov served pretty well to win 78% of the points (36/46) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (13/23) on his second serve. The Belarussian blasted 12 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Egor didn’t lose the focus when converting 60% of the break points that he procured (3/5).
Murray
On the other side, Andy didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Gerasimov and Murray is 1-0 for Egor.
Live score progression and stats
Egor won the set after he broke the Brit in the 7th (4-3) game. The Brit tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Yet, Egor maintained the focus to eventually clinch the set at the following breaker at 8.
Tiebreak
The Belarussian won 5 minibreaks in the 8th (5-3), 11th (6-5), 14th (7-7), 15th (8-7) and 18th (10-8) point. On the other side, the Brit won 2 minibreaks in the 12th (6-6) and 16th (8-8) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 9-8, 10-c
Gerasimov conquered a commanding position in the outset to break in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Gerasimov extended his lead after breaking Andy in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when Gerasimov won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the game count from 0-0 to 5-0.
They played 46 points. The Belarussian conquered the set after winning 16 points more than Murray (31-15). The Belarussian surrendered 7 points on serve (19-7). on the other side of the net, the Brit conceded 12 points on serve (8-12).
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