Valentin Royer surprises Andrey Rublev 6-4 7-6(2) in the 2nd round in Hangzhou on Saturday. Royer will have to play Learner Tien in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Valentin added to his prize money $ 12,920 after winning this match. He has already won $ 30,805 after this win. If he wins the next match, Valentin will add $ 22,360 to his earnings to get in total $ 53,165 in total.
Highlights Valentin Royer vs. Andrey Rublev Hangzhou Open – Hangzhou
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Royer scored 81 points vs. Rublev’s 69.
Royer
Valentin served pretty well to win 78% of the points (38/49) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (13/25) on his second serve. The French player struck 10 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Valentin won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points after he converted only 40% (2/5) of the procured opportunities.
Rublev
On the other side, Rublev had a tough time converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Royer and Rublev is 1-0 for Valentin.
Draw and next match H2H: Valentin Royer vs. Learner Tien – stats
Royer will come up against Tien in the quarter.
There is no head to head record
between Valentin Royer and Learner Tien since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.Tennis Scores in Hangzhou
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4 7-62)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy (6-2 6-3)
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Arthur CazauxCazaux (6-71 6-3 7-63)
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)
- Yibing WuWu – Sebastian KordaKorda (4-6 6-1 6-4)
- Alexander BublikBublik – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-76 6-4 6-4)
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-1 6-4)
- Learner TienTien – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-3)
Upcoming matches
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Yibing WuWu – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – H2H details and stats