Marcos Giron defeats Denis Shapovalov 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in Houston on Tuesday. Giron will play Jeff Wolf in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes. This run will match his best result in this tournament. Here you can see his history at this event.
The American added to his prize money $ 4,515 after winning this match. He has already won $ 11,610 after this win. If he wins the next match, the American will add $ 8,385 to his earnings to get in total $ 19,995 in total.
Highlights Marcos Giron vs. Denis Shapovalov US Men’s Clay Court Championship – Houston
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Giron scored 64 points vs. Shapovalov’s 48.
Giron
Marcos served exceptionally well to win 78% of the points (28/36) behind his first serve, and he won 65% points (13/20) on his second serve. Giron was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured (3/6).
Shapovalov
On the other side, Denis wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Giron and Shapovalov is 1-0 for Marcos.
Draw and next match H2H: Marcos Giron vs. Jeff Wolf – stats
Giron will square off with Wolf in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Marcos Giron and Jeff Wolf fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Giron (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
Live score progression and stats
Giron started the set strong after breaking Denis Shapovalov in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Marcos extended his lead after breaking Shapovalov in the 3rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).
A defining moment of this set was when Marcos won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to convert the score from 0-0 to 4-0.
Marcos converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 3rd (2-0 15-40) and the 7th game (5-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Giron didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Marcos was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than Denis (29-19). Marcos was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the other side, Denis conceded 13 points on serve (15-13).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Marcos conquered in the 11th game (6-5) just before eventually winning the set (7-5).
Marcos was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 11th game (5-5 15-40). On the other side, the Canadian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 12th game (5-6 30-40).
They played 64 points. The American won 6 points more than Shapovalov (35-29). Giron surrendered 11 points on serve (25-11). on the other side of the court, the Canadian conceded 10 points on serve (18-10).
Tennis Scores in Houston
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- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 6-74 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-2 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (7-63 6-72 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Denis KudlaKudla (3-6 7-63 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-64 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-65 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-3 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Marcos GironGiron – Jeff WolfWolf (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Michael MmohMmoh – Max PurcellPurcell (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H details and stats