Felix Auger-Aliassime soars past Sebastian Ofner 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Tokyo on Wednesday after playing a fantastic match to come up against Marcos Giron in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Auger-Aliassime added to his prize money $ 23,725 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 50,895 after this win. If he wins the next match, Felix will add $ 48,720 to his earnings to get in total $ 99,615 in total.
Highlights Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Sebastian Ofner Rakuten Japan Open – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Canadian scored 73 points vs. Ofner’s 58.
Auger-Aliassime
Auger-Aliassime served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (34/45) behind his first serve. Nonetheless he won only 21% points (3/14) on his second serve. Auger-Aliassime won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points as he converted only 31% (5/16) of the procured opportunities.
Ofner
On the other side, Ofner had some problems converting his break points (only 29% – 2/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Auger-Aliassime and Ofner is 1-0 for Felix.
Draw and next match H2H: Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Marcos Giron – stats
Auger-Aliassime will come up against Giron in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Felix Auger-Aliassime and Marcos Giron clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Auger-Aliassime (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Auger-Aliassime had a racing start in this set after breaking Sebastian Ofner in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Felix found the way to come back to break Ofner in the 2nd (1-1) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Auger-Aliassime failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 30.
Felix converted 22% of his break points (2/9). He had 9 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, Sebastian converted 14% of his break points (1/7). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 11th game (3-6 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 88 points. It’s worth to point out that, Auger-Aliassime won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Ofner (43-45). Felix conceded 20 points on serve (25-20). On the losing side, the Austrian conceded 18 points on serve (25-18).
Auger-Aliassime won the set after he broke the Austrian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game.
Sebastian was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-1 to 6-1.
The Canadian converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Auger-Aliassime didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 45 points. Felix conquered the set after winning 17 points more than the Austrian (31-14). The Canadian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (12-2). on the other side of the court, Sebastian conceded 19 points on serve (12-19).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Casper RuudRuud (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-75 6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
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