TENNIS SCORES. Shapovalov aces Sandgren in the 2nd round of the Winston

Denis Shapovalov topples Tennys Sandgren 6-2 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday. Shapovalov will clash against Miomir Kecmanovic in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Canadian in this set was in much better shape than the American and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking the American in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Tennys had no answers in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Shapovalov commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Sandgren in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for Denis to win the set since Sandgren found the way to break back in the 5^th (2-3) and in the 7^th (4-3) game. The Canadian kept his focus to break Sandgren in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (6-4) game.

The Canadian lost a big opportunity to break Tennys in the 4^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Notwithstanding also Tennys won 4 consecutive games from 0-3 to 4-3

Statistics

At the end of the match, Shapovalov scored 64 points vs. Tennys’s 48 points.

The Canadian won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points since he converted only 42% (5/12). On the other side, Sandgren was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this match, the head to head between Shapovalov and Sandgren is 2-0 for Denis.

Next Match: Denis Shapovalov vs. Miomir Kecmanovic – stats

Shapovalov will face Kecmanovic in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Denis Shapovalov and Miomir Kecmanovic since this will be the first time that they will play 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