Alex Michelsen shocks Alex De Minaur 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Los Cabos on Wednesday after playing an impressive match to play Jordan Thompson in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 22 minutes.
Michelsen added to his prize money $ 10,600 after winning this match. He has already won $ 26,665 after this win. If he wins the next match, the American will add $ 21,075 to his earnings to get in total $ 47,740 in total.
Highlights Alex Michelsen vs. Alex De Minaur Mifel Tennis Open – Los Cabos
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:22
At the end of the match, Michelsen scored 61 points vs. De Minaur’s 39.
Michelsen
Alex served extremely well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (12/20) on his second serve. Michelsen was effective when converting 67% of the break points that he conquered (4/6).
De Minaur
On the other side, Alex had some problems converting his break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Michelsen and De Minaur is 1-0 for Alex.
Draw and next match H2H: Alex Michelsen vs. Jordan Thompson – stats
Michelsen will play Thompson in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Alex Michelsen and Jordan Thompson square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Thompson (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Michelsen had a strong start of this set after breaking Alex De Minaur in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, there was more to do for Michelsen to win the set as De Minaur managed to break back in the 9th (4-5) game. Michelsen kept his focus to break De Minaur in the 10th (6-4) game.
The American failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 15.
Michelsen converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40), the 8th (5-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 15-40). Moreover, on the other side, De Minaur converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had his opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (1-3 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40).
They contested 68 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than the Australian (39-29). Michelsen dropped 13 points on serve (25-13). On the losing side, Alex conceded 14 points on serve (16-14).
Michelsen had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Alex De Minaur in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. The American managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Alex in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
One of the most important stints of the set was when Alex won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to convert the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Michelsen was spot on in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 0-40) and the 4th game (3-0 40-A). On the other side, Alex didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 32 points. Alex was the one to win the set after conquering 12 points more than Alex (22-10). Alex was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (12-3). On the other side, De Minaur conceded 10 points on serve (7-10).
Tennis Scores in Los Cabos
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 4-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Marcos GironGiron (6-1 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Emilio NavaNava (7-65 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
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