Mate Valkusz surprises Daniel Altmaier 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Metz on Tuesday after playing a marvellous match to play Alexander Shevchenko in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes.
Valkusz added to his prize money € 3,845 after conquering this match. He has already won € 9,880 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Hungarian will add € 7,130 to his earnings to get in total € 17,010 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Valkusz scored 61 points vs. Daniel’s 41.
Valkusz
Mate won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 45% (5/11) of the procured opportunities.
Altmaier
On the other side, the German was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Valkusz and Altmaier is 1-0 for Mate.
Draw and next match H2H: Mate Valkusz vs. Alexander Shevchenko – stats
Valkusz will fight against Shevchenko in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Mate Valkusz and Alexander Shevchenko fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Valkusz and Shevchenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Valkusz was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Daniel Altmaier in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, that was not enough for Valkusz to win the set since Daniel succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) game. The Hungarian maintained his cool to break the German in the 5th (4-1) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Mate converted 42% of his break points (3/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (2-0 30-40), the 5th (3-1 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (6-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Daniel converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 4th game (0-3 0-40 and 15-40).
They contested 59 points. Mate won 9 points more than the German (34-25). Valkusz dropped 10 points on serve (13-10). on the other side of the court, Daniel conceded 21 points on serve (15-21).
Valkusz didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Daniel Altmaier in the 2nd game (2-0). That break was the key for the Hungarian to win the set (6-2) as no one dropped a serve anymore.
Mate converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, the Hungarian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 43 points. The Hungarian conquered the set after winning 11 more points than Altmaier (27-16). Mate was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). On the other side, Daniel conceded 11 points on serve (13-11).
Tennis Scores in Metz
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- Harold MayotMayot – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-4 1-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
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- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Marcos GironGiron (2-6 6-3 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Calvin HemeryHemery (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (3-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-65 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Arthur CazauxCazaux (7-67 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Alexander BublikBublik – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Harold MayotMayot (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H details and stats