James Duckworth conquers Benoit Paire 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Sofia on Thursday. Duckworth will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Jannik Sinner in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
The Australian added to his prize money € 5,000 after winning this match. He has won already € 14,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Duckworth will add € 7,000 to his earnings to get in total € 21,000 in total.
Highlights James Duckworth vs. Benoit Paire Sofia Open – Sofia
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Duckworth scored 69 points vs. Benoit’s 53.
Duckworth
James won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 33% (4/12) of the procured opportunities.
Paire
On the other side, Paire was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Duckworth and Paire is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: James Duckworth vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
Duckworth will square off with Sinner in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that James Duckworth and Jannik Sinner fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Duckworth and Sinner (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Duckworth won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Toronto back in August 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Sinner came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Benoit Paire in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Duckworth managed to stage a good comeback to break Paire 3 times in the 6th (2-4), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Paire was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 1-4 to 6-4.
They contested 54 points. James was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Benoit (31-23). The Australian conceded 10 points on serve (14-10). On the other side, Benoit conceded 17 points on serve (13-17).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Australian conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
They played 68 points. Duckworth was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than the French player (38-30). The Australian dropped 7 points on serve (21-7). Regarding the other side of the net, Benoit conceded 17 points on serve (23-17).
Tennis Scores in Sofia
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-2 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (5-7 7-60 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (7-65 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (w/o) – Stats and score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-63 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- John MillmanMillman – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Gianluca MagerMager – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jannik SinnerSinner – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-1) – H2H details and stats