TENNIS SCORES SALEM OPEN. Great Shapovalov thumps Kecmanovic in the 3rd round in Salem Open

Denis Shapovalov thumps Miomir Kecmanovic 6-2 6-3 in the 3^rd round in Salem Open on Wednesday after playing a fantastic match to play Andrey Rublev in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Shapovalov in this set was in much better shape than Miomir and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Miomir 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (5-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. the Canadian was broken in the in the 7^th (5-2) game, but that didn’t prevent his to win the set (6-2).

Shapovalov failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 40.

Shapovalov was unable to break Miomir in the 2^nd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

A crucial moment of the match was when Shapovalov won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

Shapovalov had a strong start of this set after breaking Kecmanovic in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Denis to win the set as the Serbian found the way to break back in the 5^th (2-3) game. The Canadian kept his focus to break the Serbian in the 8^th (5-3) game before conquering the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Canadian scored 71 points vs. the Serbian’s 48 points.

The Canadian served pretty well to win 80% of the points (20/25) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (13/24) on his second serve. The Canadian won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points because he converted only 31% (5/16). On the other side, Kecmanovic was far from perfect in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Shapovalov and Kecmanovic is 1-0 for Denis.

HOT SHOT

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— We Are Tennis (@WeAreTennis) August 22, 2019

Next Match: Denis Shapovalov vs. Andrey Rublev – stats

Shapovalov will fight against Rublev in the quarter.

This will be the 3^rd time that Denis Shapovalov and Andrey Rublev fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Shapovalov and Rublev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Shapovalov won 6-3 7-6⁵ in the 3^rd round in Miami back in March 2019.

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

• Steve JohnsonSteve – Casper RuudCasper (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovDenis – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Benoit PaireBenoit – Ugo HumbertUgo (3-6 7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo (7-6⁷ 6-0) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevAndrey – Sam QuerreySam (7-6⁴ 7-6¹⁰) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeFrances – Filip KrajinovicFilip (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• John MillmanJohn – Robin HaaseRobin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHubert – Feliciano LopezFeliciano (6-3 3-1 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• John MillmanJohn – Steve JohnsonSteve (1-3) – See H2H details
• Benoit PaireBenoit – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (7-3) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevAndrey – Denis ShapovalovDenis (1-1) – See H2H details
• Frances TiafoeFrances – Hubert HurkaczHubert (2-0) – See H2H details