Bernard Tomic shocks Tiafoe in the 1st round of the BB&T Atlanta Open

Bernard Tomic upsets Frances Tiafoe 4-6 6-3 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Atlanta on Tuesday. Tomic will face Matthew Ebden in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Tiafoe conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Tomic in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Tiafoe to win the set since Tomic managed to break back in the 6^th (2-4) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Francis maintained his cool to break the Australian in the 9^th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).

A crucial moment of the match was when Francis won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2^nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Tomic conquered in the 8^th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, Bernard won the breaker at 4.

At the end of the match, Bernard scored 109 points vs. the American’s 105 points.

Tomic served extremely well to win 76% of the points (51/67) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 48% points (23/48) on his second serve. Tomic blasted 20 aces and he committed 6 double faults. The Australian was pretty good in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered (3/5). On the other side, Francis was struggling in converting his break points since he converted only 25% of his break points (3/12). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Tomic and Tiafoe is 1-0 for Bernard.

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🇦🇺 Bernard Tomic scores a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) upset over No. 5 seed 🇺🇸 Frances Tiafoe #AtlantaOpen pic.twitter.com/hGycIPF3hV

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Next Match: Bernard Tomic vs. Matthew Ebden – H2H and stats

Tomic will square off with Ebden in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Bernard Tomic and Matthew Ebden fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tomic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Tomic won 6-3 7-6⁵ in the qualifications in Cincinnati back in 2014.