Gael Monfils overcomes Martinez Portero in the 1st round to battle vs Struff at the ASB Classic. HIGHLIGHTS – AUCKLAND RESULTS

Gael Monfils conquers Pedro Martinez Portero 1-6 7-6(5) 6-3 in the 1^st round in Auckland on Tuesday. Monfils will play against Jan-Lennard Struff in the 2^nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 24 minutes. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2013. Here you can see his history at this event.

Auckland

Monfils's Record

The French player added to his prize money $ 4,640 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 11,935 after this win. If he wins the next match, Monfils will add $ 8,620 to his earnings to get in total $ 20,555 in total.

Highlights Gael Monfils vs. Pedro Martinez Portero ASB Classic – Auckland

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Monfils

Portero

1-6 7-6⁵ 6-3
2h:24

82

82

Total points

87

87

38

38

Winners

41

41

46%

46%

Ratio Winners

47%

47%

-- Serve --

8

8

Aces

1

1

3

3

Double Faults

3

3

59%

59%

1st in

70%

70%

75%

75%

1st won

71%

71%

38/51

38/51

1st won

41/58

41/58

49%

49%

2nd won

60%

60%

17/35

17/35

2nd won

15/25

15/25

-- Break Points --

2/5

2/5

Total

4/5

4/5

40%

40%

Won

80%

80%

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Monfils won this match even if he won less points than Pedro (82 vs. 87).

Monfils

The French player served very well to win 75% of the points (38/51) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 49% points (17/35) on his second serve. The French player won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 40% (2/5) of the procured opportunities.

Martinez Portero

On the other side, Pedro didn’t lose the concentration in converting 80% of the break points that he conquered points (4/5). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Martinez Portero is 2-1 for Gael.

Draw and next match H2H: Gael Monfils vs. Jan-Lennard Struff – stats

Monfils will square off with Struff in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 3^rd time that Gael Monfils and Jan-Lennard Struff play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Monfils (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Monfils won 6-3 1-6 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Doha back in 2018.

Live score progression and stats

Monfils enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Pedro Martinez Portero in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Pedro managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Monfils in the 3^rd (3-0) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

The Spaniard failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 0.

There was a pivotal moment in this set when Martinez Portero won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the score from 0-0 to 4-0.

Pedro was on the money in converting all his break points in the 1^st (0-0 30-40), the 3^rd (2-0 15-40) and the 7^th game (5-1 0-40). On the other side, Martinez Portero didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 40 points. The Spaniard won 20 more points than Monfils (30-10). Pedro was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). on the other side of the net, Monfils conceded 14 points on serve (7-14).

Gael conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6^th (2-4) game, The French player broke back in the 9^th (4-5) game to conquer the set 7-6.

The French player was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 9^th game (3-5 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Martinez Portero was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6^th game (3-2 40-A).

They played 78 points. Monfils was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Pedro (43-35). The French player lost 15 points on serve (33-15). on the other side of the net, Pedro conceded 10 points on serve (20-10).

Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the French player grabbed in the 6^th game (4-2) before finally winning the set (6-3).

Gael converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 6^th (3-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8^th game (5-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Pedro wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 9^th game (3-5 30-40).

They played 51 points. Gael won 5 more points than Pedro (28-23). Gael dropped 6 points on serve (17-6). In addition, on the other side, the Spaniard conceded 11 points on serve (17-11).

Tennis Scores in Auckland

• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (1-6 7-6⁵ 6-3)
• Luca NardiNardi – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-2 1-1 ret.)
• Jakub MensikMensik – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-2 4-6 7-5)
• Mariano NavoneNavone – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-6⁶ 6-7⁵ 6-1)
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-3 6-4)
• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Gabriel DialloDiallo (7-6⁵ 2-6 7-6⁷)
• Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-2 6-3)
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Francisco ComesanaComesana (6-2 6-2)
• Zizou BergsBergs – Isaac BecroftBecroft (6-3 7-5)
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 3-6 7-5)
• Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Sumit NagalNagal (6-7⁸ 6-4 6-2)
• Nuno BorgesBorges – Luciano DarderiDarderi (5-7 6-3 7-5)

Upcoming matches

• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-2) – H2H details and stats
• Zizou BergsBergs – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (3-0) – H2H details and stats
• Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-2) – H2H details and stats
• Mariano NavoneNavone – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H details and stats