Steve Johnson victorious over Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Los Cabos on Wednesday. Johnson will engage against Taylor Harry Fritz in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 1st round in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Johnson scored 72 points vs. the Japanese’s 64.
Johnson
Steve served pretty well to win 84% of the points (27/32) behind his first serve, and he won 65% points (22/34) on his second serve. Johnson struck 11 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The American won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 29% (2/7) of the procured opportunities.
Uchiyama
On the other side, the Japanese had some problems converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Johnson and Uchiyama is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Steve Johnson vs. Taylor Harry Fritz – stats
Johnson will face Harry Fritz in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Steve Johnson and Taylor Harry Fritz play each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Johnson and Harry Fritz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Harry Fritz won 6-4 7-64 4-6 6-74 6-4 in the 2nd round in London back in July 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Steve won the set after he broke Uchiyama in the 7th (4-3) game. Yasutaka tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Nonetheless, Steve kept the situation under control to finally clinch the set at the following breaker at 4.
Tiebreak
The American won 2 minibreaks in the 5th (3-2) and 11th (7-4) point.
The American won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The American converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 7th (3-3 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, the Japanese converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (4-5 15-40).
They contested 88 points. This set was so close that, Steve won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The American surrendered 12 points on serve (29-12). on the other side of the net, the Japanese conceded 15 points on serve (32-15).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the American grabbed in the 8th game (5-3) before finally conquering the set (6-3).
Steve converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 8th game (4-3 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Johnson didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Johnson was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Uchiyama (28-20). Johnson conceded 5 points on serve (20-5). on the other side of the net, the Japanese conceded 8 points on serve (15-8).
Tennis Scores in Los Cabos
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- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Elias YmerYmer (7-64 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Denis KudlaKudla (6-4 7-69) – Stats and score progression
- John IsnerIsner – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 3-6 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-64 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Sebastian OfnerOfner (3-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Emilio GomezGomez (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Alex BoltBolt – John IsnerIsner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Steve JohnsonJohnson (2-2) – H2H details and stats