Luca Van Assche downs Dragos Nicolae Madaras 7-6(2) 6-4 in the 1st round in Bastad on Monday. Van Assche will engage against Francisco Cerundolo in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 47 minutes.
Van Assche added to his prize money € 3,845 after winning this match. He has already won € 9,880 after this win. If he wins the next match, Van Assche will add € 7,130 to his earnings to get in total € 17,010 in total.
Highlights Luca Van Assche vs. Dragos Nicolae Madaras Nordea Open – Bastad
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:47
At the end of the match, the French player scored 74 points vs. Madaras’s 62.
Van Assche
Luca served extremely well to win 89% of the points (32/36) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 31% points (8/26) on his second serve. Luca won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities.
Madaras
On the other side, the Romanian was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that he procured points (3/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Van Assche and Madaras is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Luca Van Assche vs. Francisco Cerundolo – stats
Van Assche will square off with Cerundolo in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Francisco Cerundolo since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Van Assche was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Dragos Nicolae Madaras in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the French player to win the set since Dragos Nicolae managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 10th (5-5) game. The French player maintained his cool to break the Romanian in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (7-6).
Luca failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 15.
The French player converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 7th (3-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Madaras converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 15-40), the 6th (3-2 30-40), the 10th (4-5 15-40) and the 14th game (5-7 15-40).
They played 84 points. This set was so close that, Van Assche won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Van Assche conceded 19 points on serve (26-19). Regarding the other side of the net, the Romanian conceded 16 points on serve (23-16).
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Luca conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
Van Assche converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (2-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40). On the other side, Dragos Nicolae wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 5th game (2-2 30-40).
They played 52 points. Luca was the one to win the set after conquering 10 more points than Madaras (31-21). The French player dropped 5 points on serve (17-5). In addition, on the other side, Dragos Nicolae conceded 14 points on serve (16-14).
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