Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard prevails over Luca Nardi 6-3 7-6(4) in the 2nd round in Shanghai on Friday. Mpetshi Perricard will clash against Taylor Fritz in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
Giovanni added to his prize money $ 25,140 after winning this match. He has already won $ 60,400 after this win. If he wins the next match, the French player will add $ 42,825 to his earnings to get in total $ 103,225 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Giovanni scored 78 points vs. the Italian’s 63.
Mpetshi Perricard
Giovanni served pretty well to win 77% of the points (41/53) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (13/23) on his second serve. The French player fired 11 aces and he committed 1 double fault. The French player was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (2/4).
Nardi
On the other side, the Italian was not so effective in converting his break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Mpetshi Perricard and Nardi is 1-0 for Giovanni.
Draw and next match H2H: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard vs. Taylor Fritz – stats
Mpetshi Perricard will square off with Fritz in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Taylor Fritz play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fritz (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Fritz won 6-76 6-78 6-4 7-66 6-4 in the 1st round in London back in July 2025.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Giovanni snatched in the 6th game (4-2) prior to eventually conquering the set (6-3).
Giovanni converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th game (3-2 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Italian was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40).
They contested 64 points. The French player won 6 points more than Luca (35-29). Mpetshi Perricard conceded 8 points on serve (23-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Nardi conceded 12 points on serve (21-12).
Mpetshi Perricard won the set after he broke the Italian in the 3rd (2-1) game. The Italian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Nevertheless, the French player kept the focus to eventually clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
Mpetshi Perricard won 3 minibreaks in the 8th (4-4), 9th (5-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Nardi won a minibreak in the 6th (4-2) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The French player converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (1-1 0-40 and 15-40). In addition on the other side, Nardi converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 10th game (4-5 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 77 points. The French player won 9 more points than the Italian (43-34
). Giovanni surrendered 14 points on serve (31-14). On the losing side, the Italian conceded 12 points on serve (20-12).Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Luca NardiNardi (6-3 7-64)
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-79 6-2 6-1)
- Taylor FritzFritz – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (2-6 7-64 7-61)
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- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Flavio CobolliCobolli (7-5 6-1)
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-63 7-64)
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4)
- Holger RuneRune – Sebastian BaezBaez (7-5 6-4)
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- Zizou BergsBergs – Casper RuudRuud (3-6 7-5 4-1 ret.)
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (6-1 1-6 6-1)
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-3 7-64)
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