Alexei Popyrin tops Ruusuvuori in the 1st round to collide vs Sinner at the U.S. Open. HIGHLIGHTS – U.S. OPEN RESULTS

Alexei Popyrin wins against Emil Ruusuvuori 6-3 6-4 7-6(3) in the 1^st round in New York on Tuesday. Popyrin will clash against Jannik Sinner in the 2^nd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 11 minutes. His best achievement in this event was reaching the 4^th round in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.

Alexei added to his prize money $ 44,000 after winning this match. He has already won $ 154,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Australian will add $ 83,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 237,000 in total.

Highlights Alexei Popyrin vs. Emil Ruusuvuori U.S. Open – New York

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

At the end of the match, Popyrin scored 111 points vs. Ruusuvuori’s 84.

Popyrin

Alexei served pretty well to win 87% of the points (46/53) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (17/32) on his second serve. Popyrin struck 19 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Popyrin won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 36% (5/14) of the procured opportunities.

Ruusuvuori

On the other side, the Finn was great in converting all his break points (3/3). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Popyrin and Ruusuvuori is 2-0 for Alexei.

Draw and next match H2H: Alexei Popyrin vs. Jannik Sinner – stats

Popyrin will compete against Sinner in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Alexei Popyrin and Jannik Sinner square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Popyrin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

Live score progression and stats

Popyrin was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Emil Ruusuvuori in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. the Australian to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.

Popyrin converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2^nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 4^th game (3-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Alexei didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 49 points. Alexei conquered the set after winning 11 more points than Emil (30-19). Popyrin was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (20-2). On the losing side, the Finn conceded 10 points on serve (17-10).

Popyrin won the set after he broke Emil 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 9^th (5-4) game. Emil tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 6^th (3-3) game. However, Alexei kept the focus to win the set 6-4.

Alexei was flawless in converting all his break points in the 3^rd (1-1 0-40), the 5^th (2-2 0-40) and the 9^th game (4-4 40-A). In addition on the other side, the Finn was on the money in converting all his break points in the 4^th (1-2 30-40) and the 6^th game (2-3 15-40).

They contested 54 points. Alexei won 6 more points than Ruusuvuori (30-24). Alexei conceded 13 points on serve (16-13). In addition, on the other side, Emil conceded 14 points on serve (11-14).

The Australian clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4^th (1-3) game, Alexei broke back in the 5^th (2-3) game before bringing the set at the tiebreak that he won 7-3.

Tiebreak

Popyrin won 3 minibreaks in the 4^th (3-1), 8^th (6-2) and 10^th (7-3) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 6-3, 7-3

Alexei converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 3^rd (1-1 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 5^th (1-3 30-40), the 6^th (3-3 30-40) and the 9^th game (4-4 40-A). On the other side, Ruusuvuori was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4^th game (2-1 30-40).

They played 92 points. Popyrin was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Emil (50-42). The Australian dropped 7 points on serve (26-7). On the losing side, Ruusuvuori conceded 24 points on serve (35-24).

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