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

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

Score, report, and key facts

1^st 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 3^rd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Kecmanovic was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Popyrin in the 2^nd 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 5^th (2-3) game. Kecmanovic kept his focus to break Popyrin in the 8^th (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 3^rd 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 3^rd round in French Open (juniors) back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

• Benoit PaireBenoit – Prajnesh GunneswaranPrajnesh (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Filip KrajinovicFilip – Tomas BerdychTomas (3-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovDenis – Tennys SandgrenTennys (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Steve JohnsonSteve – Daniel EvansDaniel (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHubert – Duckhee LeeDuckhee (4-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Robin HaaseRobin – Joao SousaJoao (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Marius CopilMarius (6-3 6-7³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Miomir KecmanovicMiomir – Alexei PopyrinAlexei (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevAndrey – Albert Ramos-VinolasAlbert (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo – Damir DzumhurDamir (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Ugo HumbertUgo – Bjorn FratangeloBjorn (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• John MillmanJohn – Marco CecchinatoMarco (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Feliciano LopezFeliciano – Pablo AndujarPablo (6-4 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Casper RuudCasper – Lloyd HarrisLloyd (6-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeFrances – Jeremy ChardyJeremy (4-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Sam QuerreySam – Roberto Carballes BaenaRoberto (6-3 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Feliciano LopezFeliciano – Hubert HurkaczHubert (0-0) – See H2H details
• Sam QuerreySam – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
• Robin HaaseRobin – John MillmanJohn (0-0) – See H2H details
• Benoit PaireBenoit – Ugo HumbertUgo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Filip KrajinovicFilip – Frances TiafoeFrances (2-0) – See H2H details
• Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo (0-1) – See H2H details
• Casper RuudCasper – Steve JohnsonSteve (0-0) – See H2H details
• Miomir KecmanovicMiomir – Denis ShapovalovDenis (0-0) – See H2H details