TENNIS SCORES. Chung dispatches Escobedo in the 1st round in New York

Hyeon Chung gets by Ernesto Escobedo 3-6 6-4 6-7⁵ 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in New York on Tuesday. Chung will fight against Fernando Verdasco in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The American won the set after he broke the Korean in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Chung tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Anyhow, the American didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Escobedo overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Chung in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, Hyeon managed to stage a great comeback to break the American in the 8^th (4-4) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Ernesto was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).

3^rd set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, the American won the tiebreak at 5.

4^th set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Chung conquered in the 9^th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).

5^th set.

Chung had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Escobedo in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. The Korean extended his lead after breaking Ernesto in the 3^rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when the Korean won 4 consecutive games in the 5^th set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Chung scored 160 points vs. Ernesto’s 151 points.

The Korean served pretty well to win 76% of the points (78/103) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (26/52) on his second serve. The Korean fired 17 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Hyeon won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points because he converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, the American was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 20% of his break points (3/15). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this encounter, the head to head between Chung and Escobedo is 2-0 for Hyeon.

Highlights Hyeon Chung vs. Ernesto Escobedo U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Hyeon Chung vs. Fernando Verdasco – stats

Chung will face Verdasco in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Hyeon Chung and Fernando Verdasco play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Verdasco (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Verdasco won 7-6⁵ 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Houston back in 2015.

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