David Goffin survives Guido Pella 6-1 7-5 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Goffin is going to play against Adrian Mannarino in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Goffin started the set strong after breaking Pella in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. David improved his lead after breaking Pella in the 6th (5-1) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
2nd set.
Goffin clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, The Belgian broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
Guido had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).
Statistics
At the end of the match, David scored 68 points vs. Guido’s 54 points.
Goffin served extremely well to win 76% of the points (29/38) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 45% points (9/20) on his second serve. David won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, the Argentine was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 14% of his break points (1/7). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Goffin and Pella is 4-1 for David.
Next Match: David Goffin vs. Adrian Mannarino – H2H and stats
Goffin will come up against Mannarino in the 3rd round.
This will be the 6th time that David Goffin and Adrian Mannarino face off. The head to head is 4-1 for Goffin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Mannarino won 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in Hertogenbosch back in June 2019.
