Benoit Paire survives Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Paire will have to play Ugo Humbert in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Paire had a great start in this set after breaking Gunneswaran in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Benoit to win the set as Prajnesh succeeded in breaking back in the 7th (3-4) game. Paire kept his focus to break Prajnesh in the 8th (5-3) game before conquering the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the French Player conquered in the 11th game (6-5) before winning the set (7-5).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Benoit scored 67 points vs. the Indian’s 57 points.
The French Player served pretty well to win 83% of the points (30/36) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (16/32) on his second serve. Benoit fired 14 aces and he committed 7 double faults. Benoit was pretty good in converting 75% of the break points that he procured (3/4). On the other side, Gunneswaran was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 20% of his break points (1/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Paire and Gunneswaran is 1-1.
Next Match: Benoit Paire vs. Ugo Humbert – stats
Paire will take on Humbert in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Benoit Paire and Ugo Humbert since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
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