Stefanos Tsitsipas is doing everything he can to support his brother Petros, but that is not working well. The world no.5 helped Petros to get a controversial wildcard for the main draw in Marseille, a tournament that Stefanos won the last 2 years. Things went predictably bad as Petros lost in 45 minutes after scoring only 2 games against the world no.52 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. Petros won only 3 points on return.
The controversy around the wildcard
Petros’ wildcard has been widely slammed by the tennis fans as regarded as an act of nepotism. He will play with his brother Stefanos in doubles on Wednesday with the help of another wildcard.
The Spaniard added to his prize money € 2,040 after conquering this match. He has won already € 7,140 after this win. If he wins the next match, Alejandro will add € 3,310 to his earnings to get in total € 10,450 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Davidovich Fokina scored 50 points vs. Petros’s 20.
Davidovich Fokina
Davidovich Fokina served very well to win 92% of the points (23/25) behind his first serve, and he won 83% points (5/6) on his second serve. Alejandro was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that he procured (5/8).
Tsitsipas
On the other side, Tsitsipas wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, The Spaniard was just to good and Petros had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Davidovich Fokina and Tsitsipas is 1-0 for Alejandro.
Draw and next match H2H: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Arthur Rinderknech – stats
Davidovich Fokina will take on Rinderknech in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Arthur Rinderknech since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
This set was completely uneven as Davidovich Fokina conceded no games to the Greek before winning the set 6-0.
Davidovich Fokina was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (2-0 40-A) and the 5th game (4-0 30-40). On the other side, the Spaniard didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 30 points. Alejandro won 20 more points than Tsitsipas (25-5). The Spaniard was untouchable on serve to concede not even a single point during his serving games (12-0). On the losing side, the Greek conceded 13 points on serve (5-13).
Davidovich Fokina didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Rinderknech in the 1st game (1-0). Alejandro extended his lead after breaking Tsitsipas in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
Alejandro converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Spaniard didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 40 points. The Spaniard was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than the Greek (25-15). Davidovich Fokina was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (16-3). On the other side, Petros conceded 9 points on serve (12-9).
Tennis Scores in Marseille
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Petros TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-0 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Feliciano LopezLopez (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Alex MolcanMolcan (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-62 7-61) – Stats and score progression
- Matthew EbdenEbden – Benjamin BonziBonzi (3-6 7-66 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Dennis NovakNovak (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 4-2 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (7-63 6-75 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Ugo HumbertHumbert (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Matthew EbdenEbden – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lucas PouillePouille – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GastonGaston – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
