Frances Tiafoe topples Cameron Norrie 6-4 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Vienna on Tuesday. Tiafoe will try to keep the momentum against Matteo Berrettini in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. His best result in this competition was reaching the final in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
Frances added to his prize money € 16,860 after winning this match. He has already won € 36,130 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tiafoe will add € 31,550 to his earnings to get in total € 67,680 in total.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Cameron Norrie Erste Bank Open – Vienna
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 70 points vs. the Brit’s 58.
Tiafoe
The American served very well to win 82% of the points (31/38) behind his first serve, and he won 72% points (18/25) on his second serve. Tiafoe fired 11 aces without committing any double fault. The American was great in converting all the break points (2/2).
Norrie
On the other side, Cameron wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tiafoe and Norrie is 2-1 for Frances.
Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Matteo Berrettini – stats
Tiafoe will fight against Berrettini in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Frances Tiafoe and Matteo Berrettini fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Tiafoe and Berrettini (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Berrettini won 6-3 7-61 in the 1st round in Rome back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Frances conquered in the 9th game (5-4) prior to eventually conquering the set (6-4).
The Brit couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-4 to 6-4.
They contested 61 points. The American won 9 points more than the Brit (35-26). Tiafoe surrendered 8 points on serve (21-8). Regarding the other side of the net, the Brit conceded 14 points on serve (18-14).
Tiafoe was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Cameron Norrie in the 2nd game (2-0). Norrie to win the set (7-6) as no one dropped a serve anymore.
Tiebreak
Tiafoe won 6 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 6th (4-2), 7th (5-2), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Brit won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 5th (2-3), 8th (3-5) and 9th (4-5) point.
The American won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
They contested 66 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Norrie (36-30). Frances surrendered 8 points on serve (24-8). on the other side of the court, Cameron conceded 12 points on serve (22-12).
Tennis Scores in Vienna
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- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-4 7-64)
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- Jakub MensikMensik – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-63 6-2)
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