Alexander Blockx prevails over Francesco Passaro 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Metz on Tuesday. Blockx will play against Clement Tabur in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 56 minutes.
Alexander added to his prize money € 4,070 after winning this match. He has already won € 10,460 after this win. If he wins the next match, Alexander will add € 7,555 to his earnings to get in total € 18,015 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Alexander scored 101 points vs. Passaro’s 95.
Blockx
Blockx served pretty well to win 79% of the points (48/61) behind his first serve. However he won only 46% points (16/35) on his second serve. Alexander blasted 16 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Belgian won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points as he converted only 22% (2/9) of the procured opportunities.
Passaro
On the other side, the Italian had a tough time converting his break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Blockx and Passaro is 1-0 for Alexander.
Draw and next match H2H: Alexander Blockx vs. Clement Tabur – stats
Blockx will come up against Tabur in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Alexander Blockx and Clement Tabur since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Francesco snatched in the 6th game (4-2) just before finally winning the set (6-3).
Passaro was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 6th game (3-2 15-40). On the other side, the Belgian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (1-1 30-40).
They played 64 points. The Italian conquered the set after winning 8 points more than the Belgian (36-28). The Italian lost 8 points on serve (23-8). on the other side of the net, Alexander conceded 13 points on serve (20-13).
Similarly to the 1st set, the set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition on serve. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Belgian conquered in the 8th game (5-3) prior to eventually winning the set (6-3
).The Italian was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-3 to 6-3.
Alexander converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 40-A and 40-A), the 8th (4-3 15-40) and the 10th game (6-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Alexander didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 61 points. Alexander was the one to win the set after conquering 11 more points than Francesco (36-25
). Blockx was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). In addition, on the other side, Francesco conceded 20 points on serve (21-20).Blockx took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Francesco Passaro in the 2nd game (2-0). Blockx reinforced his lead after breaking the Italian before conquering the set (6-4).
Alexander was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 3rd game (2-0 30-40 and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, the Italian was unable to convert any of his 7 break points. He had 7 break points opportunities in the 10th game (4-5 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 71 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Blockx won just 3 points more than Francesco (37-34). The Belgian dropped 15 points on serve (28-15). on the other side of the net, Francesco conceded 9 points on serve (19-9).
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- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (4-6 6-3 6-4)
- Alexander BlockxBlockx – Francesco PassaroPassaro (3-6 6-3 6-4)
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (7-610 6-3)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (4-6 6-4 6-4)
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Valentin RoyerRoyer (6-3 6-72 6-3)
- Learner TienTien – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (6-3 6-3)
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- Clement TaburTabur – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 6-2)
- Hugo GastonGaston – Terence AtmaneAtmane (6-4 6-1)
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 7-64)
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