TENNIS SCORES. Miomir Kecmanovic hustles Popyrin in the 2nd round of the Winston

WINSTON-SALEM OPEN - WINSTON-SALEM. Kecmanovic wins against Popyrin to take on Denis Shapovalov in the 3rd round

Prediction and head to head Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Alexei Popyrin

Miomir Kecmanovic downs Alexei Popyrin 7-65 6-3 in the 2nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday. Kecmanovic will square off with Denis Shapovalov in the 3rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, Kecmanovic won the tiebreak at 5.

The Serbian was unable to break Alexei in the 3rd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2nd set.

Kecmanovic was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Popyrin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Kecmanovic to win the set since Popyrin managed to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. Kecmanovic kept his focus to break Popyrin in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Kecmanovic scored 79 points vs. Popyrin’s 60 points.

Kecmanovic served very well to win 84% of the points (27/32) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (21/33) on his second serve. Kecmanovic won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points because he converted only 29% (2/7). On the other side, Alexei was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Kecmanovic and Popyrin is 2-0 for Miomir.

Next Match: Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Denis Shapovalov – stats

Kecmanovic will come up against Shapovalov in the 3rd round.

There is no head to head record between Miomir Kecmanovic and Denis Shapovalov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other at pro level.

The last time that they fought against each other, Shapovalov won 5-7 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in French Open (juniors) back in 2016.

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