Tennys Sandgren aces Joao Sousa 6-4 7-6(3) in the 1st round in Newport on Tuesday. Sandgren will face Jason Jung in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes. His best achievement in this tournament was reaching the quarter in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Sandgren added to his prize money $ 3,985 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 10,015 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tennys will add $ 5,565 to his earnings to get in total $ 15,580 in total.
Highlights Tennys Sandgren vs. Joao Sousa Hall of Fame Open – Newport
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Tennys scored 68 points vs. the Portuguese’s 60.
Sandgren
The American served extremely well to win 76% of the points (29/38) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (14/27) on his second serve. Tennys fired 10 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The American was pretty effective at converting 60% of the break points that he conquered (3/5).
Sousa
On the other side, Joao was exceptional in converting all his break points (2/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sandgren and Sousa is 2-1 for Tennys.
Draw and next match H2H: Tennys Sandgren vs. Jason Jung – stats
Sandgren will take on Jung in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Tennys Sandgren and Jason Jung fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sandgren (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sandgren won 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in USA F8 back in 1970.
Live score progression and stats
Tennys won the set after he broke Sousa in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game. Sousa tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Anyhow, Tennys kept the situation under control to conquer the set 6-4.
Joao lost the 3rd game (2-1) when he had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve. It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when Sandgren won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the game count from 0-1 to 5-1.
Sandgren won the set after he broke Joao in the 11th (6-5) game. Sousa tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 12th (6-6) game. However, Tennys didn’t blink to finally clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 3.
The American failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 15.
Tiebreak
Sandgren won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2), 8th (5-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, the Portuguese won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0) and 6th (3-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Tennys was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (5-5 0-40). Moreover, on the other side, the Portuguese was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 12th game (5-6 15-40).
They played 67 points. The contest during this set was so even that the American won only 1 point more than the Portuguese (34-33). Tennys lost 12 points on serve (26-12). On the losing side, the Portuguese conceded 8 points on serve (21-8).
Tennis Scores in Newport
- Jack SockSock – Alex BoltBolt (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jason JungJung – Brayden SchnurSchnur (7-5 6-71 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Ivo KarlovicKarlovic – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-75 6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Joao SousaSousa (6-4 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (5-4 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Jurij RodionovRodionov (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Steve JohnsonJohnson (7-63 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jason JungJung – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Denis KudlaKudla – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jack SockSock (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Alexander BublikBublik – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Kevin AndersonAnderson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Maxime CressyCressy – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (0-0) – H2H details and stats