Bu Yunchaokete ousts Jesper De Jong 6-4 7-6(1) in the 2nd round in Metz on Wednesday. Yunchaokete will square off with Alex Michelsen in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Yunchaokete added to his prize money € 7,345 after winning this match. He has already won € 17,510 after this win. If he wins the next match, Yunchaokete will add € 12,710 to his earnings to get in total € 30,220 in total.
Highlights Bu Yunchaokete vs. Jesper De Jong Moselle Open – Metz
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:40
At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 74 points vs. De Jong’s 61.
Yunchaokete
The Chinese served pretty well to win 78% of the points (31/40) behind his first serve, and he won 81% points (17/21) on his second serve. Bu won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 17% (1/6) of the procured opportunities.
De Jong
On the other side, Jesper wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Yunchaokete and De Jong is 1-0 for Bu.
Draw and next match H2H: Bu Yunchaokete vs. Alex Michelsen – stats
Yunchaokete will square off with Michelsen in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Bu Yunchaokete and Alex Michelsen fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Michelsen (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Michelsen won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Shanghai back in October 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Yunchaokete grabbed in the 9th game (5-4) before ultimately conquering the set (6-4).
The Dutch had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-4 to 6-4.
The Chinese converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 9th (4-4 15-40) and the 11th game (6-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Yunchaokete didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 66 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Bu won just 2 more points than De Jong (34-32). The Chinese conceded 7 points on serve (20-7). on the other side of the net, De Jong conceded 14 points on serve (25-14).
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Bu had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-1.
Yunchaokete missed the chance to break the Dutch in the 3rd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
The Chinese won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1) and 8th (7-1) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 6-1, 7-1
The Chinese was unable to convert any of the 3 conquered break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Chinese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 69 points. The Chinese conquered the set after winning 11 more points than De Jong (40-29). The Chinese lost 6 points on serve (29-6). on the other side of the court, the Dutch conceded 11 points on serve (23-11).
Tennis Scores in Metz
- Quentin HalysHalys – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-1 4-6 6-4)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Hugo GastonGaston (6-4 7-5)
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-3 3-6 6-1)
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Casper RuudRuud (6-4 6-4)
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Jesper De JongDe Jong (6-4 7-61)
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (7-62 5-7 6-3)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-74 7-63 7-68)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-63 7-5)
Upcoming matches
- Quentin HalysHalys – Benjamin BonziBonzi (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Zizou BergsBergs (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Corentin MoutetMoutet (2-0) – H2H details and stats
