Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard prevails over Frances Tiafoe 6-4 7-6(4) in the 2nd round in Brisbane on Thursday. Mpetshi Perricard will face off with Jakub Mensik in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes.
Mpetshi Perricard added to his prize money $ 7,730 after winning this match. He has already won $ 18,685 after this win. If he wins the next match, Giovanni will add $ 14,370 to his earnings to get in total $ 33,055 in total.
Highlights Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Frances Tiafoe Brisbane International – Brisbane
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Mpetshi Perricard scored 76 points vs. the American’s 71.
Mpetshi Perricard
Giovanni served extremely well to win 80% of the points (40/50) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 44% points (11/25) on his second serve. Mpetshi Perricard blasted 20 aces and he committed 4 double faults. The French player won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points after he converted only 33% (1/3) of the procured opportunities.
Tiafoe
On the other side, the American wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Mpetshi Perricard and Tiafoe is 2-0 for Giovanni.
Draw and next match H2H: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Jakub Mensik – stats
Mpetshi Perricard will square off with Mensik in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Jakub Mensik clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mpetshi Perricard (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the French player clinched in the 10th game (6-4) before ultimately winning the set (6-4).
The French player failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 15.
Giovanni converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). On the other side, the French player didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 63 points. Mpetshi Perricard conquered the set after winning 7 more points than Frances (35-28). The French player conceded 9 points on serve (25-9). on the other side of the court, Frances conceded 10 points on serve (19-10).
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, Giovanni won the tiebreak at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Mpetshi Perricard won 5 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 6th (4-2), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Tiafoe won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 5th (2-3) and 9th (4-5) point.
The French player won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Giovanni wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, Frances was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (1-1 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 84 points. It’s worth to point out that, Mpetshi Perricard won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Tiafoe (41-43). The French player lost 15 points on serve (26-15). On the losing side, Frances conceded 15 points on serve (28-15).
Tennis Scores in Brisbane
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 7-64)
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-3 6-3)
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (7-69 7-64)
- Jakub MensikMensik – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 6-2)
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-2 6-3)
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 6-75 6-4)
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 6-3)
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-2 7-65)
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