Alex De Minaur too good for David Goffin 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells on Saturday after playing a marvellous match to face off with Hubert Hurkacz in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the 4th round in 2021, 2022 and 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Australian added to his prize money $ 26,850 after winning this match. He has already won $ 64,500 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Australian will add $ 45,750 to his earnings to get in total $ 110,250 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 60 points vs. Goffin’s 39.
De Minaur
De Minaur served pretty well to win 92% of the points (23/25) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (10/18) on his second serve. De Minaur won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.
Goffin
On the other side, the Belgian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between De Minaur and Goffin is 7-0 for Alex.
Draw and next match H2H: Alex De Minaur vs. Hubert Hurkacz – stats
De Minaur will face Hurkacz in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Alex De Minaur and Hubert Hurkacz square off. The head to head is 1-1 for De Minaur and Hurkacz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Hurkacz won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Madrid back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
De Minaur was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking David Goffin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. De Minaur managed to boost his lead after breaking Goffin in the 8th (6-2) game before winning the set.
De Minaur failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 30.
De Minaur converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40). On the other side, David was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 5th game (1-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 51 points. The Australian won 11 points more than the Belgian (31-20). De Minaur lost 8 points on serve (21-8). on the other side of the net, the Belgian conceded 10 points on serve (12-10).
Alex in this set played much better tennis than the Belgian and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking Goffin in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
David was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-2
to 6-2.De Minaur converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 0th (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (3-2 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, De Minaur didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Alex was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than David (29-19). Alex was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (12-2). on the other side of the court, the Belgian conceded 17 points on serve (17-17).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
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