Christopher Eubanks upsets Hugo Gaston 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday after playing an extraordinary match to fight against Roman Safiullin in the 3rd round. The match lasted just 56 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this event. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the qualifications in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Christopher added to his prize money $ 4,800 after winning this match. He has already won $ 11,640 after this win. If he wins the next match, Eubanks will add $ 8,735 to his earnings to get in total $ 20,375 in total.
Highlights Christopher Eubanks vs. Hugo Gaston Winston-Salem Open – Winston-Salem
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Eubanks scored 61 points vs. the French player’s 37.
Eubanks
Christopher served extremely well to win 88% of the points (29/33) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (10/16) on his second serve. The American won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points as he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Gaston
On the other side, Hugo wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Eubanks and Gaston is 2-0 for Christopher.
Draw and next match H2H: Christopher Eubanks vs. Roman Safiullin – stats
Eubanks will come up against Safiullin in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd
time that Christopher Eubanks and Roman Safiullin fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.The last time that they locked horns, Safiullin won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Cary Challenger back in August 2024.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Hugo GastonGaston (6-1 6-4)
- David GoffinGoffin – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-2 6-4)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (4-6 7-5 6-3)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Dominic StrickerStricker (6-4 6-1)
- Pavel KotovKotov – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 5-7 6-2)
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 6-4)
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-62 6-2)
- Borna CoricCoric – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-3 6-4)
- Juncheng ShangShang – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-5 6-3)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-1 7-5)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (7-63 6-4)
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-2 6-2)
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-4 6-4)
- Learner TienTien – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-2 6-71 7-62)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Arthur CazauxCazaux (4-6 6-3 7-64)
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-65 2-6 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Borna CoricCoric – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-1) – H2H details and stats