Stefanos Tsitsipas motors past Lucas Pouille 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in Marseille on Thursday after playing a great match to fight against Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 4 minutes. Stefanos won this tournament twice in 2019 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Greek added to his prize money € 3,310 after winning this match. He has won already € 10,450 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tsitsipas will add € 4,850 to his earnings to get in total € 15,300 in total.
Tsitsipas was delighted about the outcome of the match. He commented:
“I figured out from early on and brought the top of my game. I haven’t played Lucas in a long time. Last time we practiced in Australia I remember that year we both made the semis. It’s very unfortunate for him that he was injured for a long time. I think he deserves to be playing at the highest stage and his game has proved itself many times in the past.”
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Lucas Pouille Open 13 Provence – Marseille
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:04
At the end of the match, the Greek scored 57 points vs. Lucas’s 35.
Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas served pretty well to win 86% of the points (19/22) behind his first serve, and he won 71% points (15/21) on his second serve. Stefanos was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6).
Pouille
On the other side, the French player was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Pouille is 2-0 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert – stats
Tsitsipas will come up against Herbert in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Pierre-Hugues Herbert face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Herbert (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Tsitsipas conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Herbert in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, there was more work to do for Tsitsipas to win the set because Pouille found the way to break back in the 7th (2-5) game. Tsitsipas maintained his cool to break the French player in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Greek won the set after he broke Pouille in the 6th (4-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Tennis Scores in Marseille
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Lucas PouillePouille (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (3-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Matthew EbdenEbden – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-64 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Hugo GastonGaston (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Jannik SinnerSinner (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Matthew EbdenEbden (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H details and stats
