TENNIS SCORES NEW YORK. Superb Nadal muscles past Millman in the 1st round of the U.S. Open

U.S. OPEN - NEW YORK. Nadal demolishes Millman to fight against Thanasi Kokkinakis in the 2nd round

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Rafael Nadal grounds John Millman 6-3 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in New York on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to clash against Thanasi Kokkinakis in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Rafael conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2nd set.

Rafael in this set was too strong for Millman and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking John in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.

The Australian lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

3rd set.

Nadal overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Millman in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Rafael managed to strengthen his lead after breaking Millman in the 3rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when the Spaniard won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Rafael scored 94 points vs. the Australian’s 70 points.

The Spaniard served extremely well to win 80% of the points (35/44) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (19/33) on his second serve. Rafael won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (5/15). On the other side, Millman wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Nadal and Millman is 2-0 for Rafael.

Highlights Rafael Nadal vs. John Millman U.S. Open – New York

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Next Match: Rafael Nadal vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis – stats

Nadal will fight against Kokkinakis in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Rafael Nadal and Thanasi Kokkinakis clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Nadal won 6-2 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Australian Open back in 2014.

Rafael Nadal in New York

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