Hyeon Chung gets by Ernesto Escobedo 3-6 6-4 6-75 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in New York on Tuesday. Chung will fight against Fernando Verdasco in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The American won the set after he broke the Korean in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Chung tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Anyhow, the American didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-3.
2nd set.
Escobedo overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Chung in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Hyeon managed to stage a great comeback to break the American in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th 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).
3rd 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.
4th 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 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
5th set.
Chung had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Escobedo in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. The Korean extended his lead after breaking Ernesto in the 3rd (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 5th 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 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd 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 2nd round in Houston back in 2015.
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