Borna Gojo upsets Taha Baadi 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in Salem Open on Saturday. Gojo will play against Marcos Giron in the qualifications.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Baadi enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Gojo in the 1st game (1-0). However, the Croatian managed to stage a good comeback to break Baadi 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
The Canadian lost the plot in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).
2nd set.
Gojo won the set after he broke Taha in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game. The Canadian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Yet, Borna didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 71 points vs. the Canadian’s 51 points.
Gojo was well focused in converting 56% of the break points that he conquered (5/9). On the other side, Taha had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 27% of his break points (3/11). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Gojo and Baadi is 1-0 for Borna.
Next Match: Borna Gojo vs. Marcos Giron – stats
Gojo will take on Giron in the qualifications.
There is no head to head record between Borna Gojo and Marcos Giron since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
The last time that they fought against each other, Giron won 3-6 7-62 6-4 in the 3rd round in Aptos Challenger back in August 2019.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Borna GojoBorna – Taha BaadiTaha (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Strong KirchheimerStrong – Kevin KrawietzKevin (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel NguyenDaniel – Marcelo ArevaloMarcelo (6-4 4-6 7-63) – See score progression
- Petros ChrysochosPetros – Filip PeliwoFilip (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Marcos GironMarcos – Roy SmithRoy (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloBjorn – Jurgen MelzerJurgen (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDamir – Kevin KingKevin (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Raymond SarmientoRaymond – Christopher EubanksChristopher (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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