TENNIS SCORES. Gritty Sandgren survives Murray in the 1st round of the Winston

Tennys Sandgren outlasts Andy Murray 7-6⁸ 7-5 in the 1^st round in Salem Open on Monday after winning a huge battle. Sandgren will clash against Denis Shapovalov in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, Tennys won the breaker at 8.

2^nd set.

Sandgren conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Murray in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. However, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the American to win the set because Murray succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (1-3) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. The American kept his cool to break the Brit in the 11^th (6-5) game before conquering the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Tennys scored 92 points vs. Andy’s 85 points.

Tennys served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (44/58) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 45% points (15/33) on his second serve. The American blasted 11 aces and he committed 6 double faults. Sandgren won this match even if he had a tough time in converting his break points since he converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Murray was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Sandgren and Murray is 1-0 for Tennys.

Next Match: Tennys Sandgren vs. Denis Shapovalov – stats

Sandgren will fight against Shapovalov in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Tennys Sandgren and Denis Shapovalov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shapovalov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Shapovalov won 6-1 6-4 in the 1^st round in Madrid back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

• Jeremy ChardyJeremy – Raymond SarmientoRaymond (6-1 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Duckhee LeeDuckhee – Henri LaaksonenHenri (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Pablo AndujarPablo – Nicolas JarryNicolas (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Bjorn FratangeloBjorn – Amir WeintraubAmir (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Alexei PopyrinAlexei – Thiago Moura MonteiroThiago (5-7 6-4 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoMarco – Alexander BublikAlexander (7-6³ 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Tennys SandgrenTennys – Andy MurrayAndy (7-6⁸ 7-5) – See score progression
• Roberto Carballes BaenaRoberto – Marcos GironMarcos (6-2 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Lloyd HarrisLloyd – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarJaume (7-6⁵ 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Robin HaaseRobin – Denis KudlaDenis (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Marius CopilMarius – Martin KlizanMartin (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Tomas BerdychTomas – Andreas SeppiAndreas (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Prajnesh GunneswaranPrajnesh – Cedrik-Marcel StebeCedrik-Marcel (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Steve JohnsonSteve – Corentin MoutetCorentin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevAndrey – Thomas FabbianoThomas (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Feliciano LopezFeliciano – Pablo AndujarPablo (2-1) – See H2H details
• Sam QuerreySam – Roberto Carballes BaenaRoberto (0-0) – See H2H details
• Thomas FabbianoThomas – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jeremy ChardyJeremy – Frances TiafoeFrances (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 – Denis ShapovalovDenis (0-1) – See H2H details
• Filip KrajinovicFilip – Tomas BerdychTomas (0-1) – See H2H details
• Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Marius CopilMarius (1-0) – See H2H details
• Bjorn FratangeloBjorn – Ugo HumbertUgo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Marco CecchinatoMarco – John MillmanJohn (2-0) – See H2H details
• Duckhee LeeDuckhee – Hubert HurkaczHubert (0-0) – See H2H details
• Antoine HoangAntoine – Damir DzumhurDamir (1-0) – See H2H details
• Casper RuudCasper – Lloyd HarrisLloyd (0-0) – See H2H details
• Miomir KecmanovicMiomir – Alexei PopyrinAlexei (1-0) – See H2H details