Molcan tops De Minaur in the semifinal. HIGHLIGHTS – LYON RESULTS

    OPEN PARC - LYON DRAW AND RESULTS. Molcan ousts De Minaur to square off with Cameron Norrie in the final

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    Luke Meyer
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    Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Alex De Minaur

    Alex Molcan downs Alex De Minaur 7-6(2) 6-2 in the semifinal in Lyon on Friday. Molcan will face Cameron Norrie in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 47 minutes.

    Molcan
    Lyon
    Molcan's Record

    Alex added to his prize money € 19,545 after winning this match. He has won already € 47,430 after this win. If he wins the next match, Molcan will add € 33,880 to his earnings to get in total € 81,310 in total.

    Highlights Alex Molcan vs. Alex De Minaur Open Parc – Lyon

    Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

    Molcan
    Minaur
    Alex Molcan
    7-62 6-2
    1h:47
    Alex De Minaur
    83
    83
    Total points
    64
    64
    33
    33
    Winners
    33
    33
    40%
    40%
    Ratio Winners
    52%
    52%
    -- Serve --
    2
    2
    Aces
    2
    2
    2
    2
    Double Faults
    2
    2
    70%
    70%
    1st in
    61%
    61%
    70%
    70%
    1st won
    67%
    67%
    33/47
    33/47
    1st won
    33/49
    33/49
    50%
    50%
    2nd won
    23%
    23%
    10/20
    10/20
    2nd won
    7/31
    7/31
    -- Break Points --
    5/11
    5/11
    Total
    3/7
    3/7
    45%
    45%
    Won
    43%
    43%
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    At the end of the match, Alex scored 83 points vs. Alex’s 64.

    Molcan

    Molcan won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points after he converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.

    De Minaur

    On the other side, the Australian wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

    After this match, the head to head between Molcan and De Minaur is 1-0 for Alex.

    Draw and next match H2H: Alex Molcan vs. Cameron Norrie – stats

    Molcan will compete against Norrie in the final.

    There is no head to head record between Alex Molcan and Cameron Norrie since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

    Alex Molcan Draw info

    Live score progression and stats

    Molcan conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Alex De Minaur in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Alex refused to bow to come back to break the Australian 3 times in the 6th (3-3), in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 2.

    Tiebreak

    The Slovakian won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 6th (4-2), 7th (5-2) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, De Minaur won a minibreak in the 4th (2-2) point.

    This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2

    Alex converted 50% of his break points (3/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 40-A), the 6th (2-3 30-40), the 8th (3-4 15-40 and 30-40), the 10th (4-5 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A). Also, on the other side, the Australian converted 42% of his break points (3/7). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (3-3 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 15-40).

    They contested 98 points. Molcan won 6 points more than De Minaur (52-46). Molcan lost 21 points on serve (27-21). On the other side, Alex conceded 25 points on serve (25-25).

    Alex in this set played much better tennis than De Minaur and finally he won 6-2 after breaking De Minaur in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.

    It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Molcan won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.

    Alex converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 5th game (3-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Molcan didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

    They contested 49 points. The Slovakian was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than the Australian (31-18). The Slovakian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). Regarding the other side of the net, Alex conceded 15 points on serve (15-15).

     

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