TENNIS SCORES. Nagal surprises Ito in the qualifications of the U.S. Open

U.S. OPEN - NEW YORK. Nagal upsets Ito to fight against Joao Menezes in the qualifications

Sumit Nagal stuns Tatsuma Ito 7-66 6-2 in the qualifications in New York on Tuesday. Nagal will fight against Joao Menezes in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Ito was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Nagal in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Nagal succeeded in coming back to break the Japanese in the 6th (3-3) game before winning the set at the breaker at 6.

2nd set.

Sumit in this set played a much better tennis than Tatsuma and consequentely he won 6-2 after breaking the Japanese in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.

The Japanese was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Nagal scored 76 points vs. Ito’s 65 points.

Nagal was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Ito had some problems in converting his break points as he converted only 25% of his break points (1/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Nagal and Ito is 1-0 for Sumit.

Next Match: Sumit Nagal vs. Joao Menezes – stats

Nagal will fight against Menezes in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Sumit Nagal and Joao Menezes since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

The last time that they played, Menezes won 5-7 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in Samarkand Challenger back in May 2019.

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