TENNIS SCORES SALEM OPEN. Immense Johnson motors past Evans in the 2nd round in Salem Open

Steve Johnson trashes Daniel Evans 6-3 6-1 in the 2^nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to fight against Casper Ruud in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Steve conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Steve won the set after he broke the Brit 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game. That break turned to be decisive for Johnson to conquer the set as he didn’t drop his serve in the rest of the set.

Daniel was outplayed in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the American scored 60 points vs. Evans’s 41 points.

Johnson served extremely well to win 80% of the points (24/30) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (12/21) on his second serve. Johnson struck 12 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Steve was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (4/8). On the other side, Daniel wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Johnson and Evans is 1-0 for Steve.

Next Match: Steve Johnson vs. Casper Ruud – stats

Johnson will square off with Ruud in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Steve Johnson and Casper Ruud since this will be the first time that they will clash 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