Prajnesh Gunneswaran prevails over Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Salem Open on Sunday. Gunneswaran will fight against Benoit Paire in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Prajnesh conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
Stebe lost the 4th game (3-1) when he had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, the set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that the Indian conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Indian scored 64 points vs. Cedrik-Marcel’s 49 points.
Prajnesh served extremely well to win 83% of the points (29/35) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (11/16) on his second serve. Prajnesh won this match even if he had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 40% (2/5). On the other side, Stebe wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Gunneswaran and Stebe is 1-0 for Prajnesh.
Next Match: Prajnesh Gunneswaran vs. Benoit Paire – stats
Gunneswaran will compete against Paire in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Benoit Paire play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gunneswaran (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Gunneswaran won 7-65 6-4 in the 1st round in Indian wells back in March 2019.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Marius CopilMarius – Martin KlizanMartin (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranPrajnesh – Cedrik-Marcel StebeCedrik-Marcel (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Tomas BerdychTomas – Andreas SeppiAndreas (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Robin HaaseRobin – Denis KudlaDenis (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisLloyd – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarJaume (7-6(5) 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Pablo AndujarPablo – Nicolas JarryNicolas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Thomas FabbianoThomas – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonSteve – Corentin MoutetCorentin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Joao SousaJoao – Robin HaaseRobin (2-2) – See H2H details
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Prajnesh GunneswaranPrajnesh (0-1) – See H2H details
- Tennys SandgrenTennys – Andy MurrayAndy (0-0) – See H2H details
- Filip KrajinovicFilip – Tomas BerdychTomas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Marius CopilMarius (1-0) – See H2H details
- Thiago Moura MonteiroThiago – Alexei PopyrinAlexei (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marco CecchinatoMarco – Alexander BublikAlexander (0-0) – See H2H details
- Duckhee LeeDuckhee – Henri LaaksonenHenri (0-0) – See H2H details
- Casper RuudCasper – Lloyd HarrisLloyd (0-0) – See H2H details