Gael Monfils obliterates Marius Copil 6-3 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday after playing a good match to come up against Denis Shapovalov in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Gael conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Monfils took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Copil in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Gael to win the set as Marius succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Gael kept his cool to break the Romanian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
Marius lost the 5th game (3-2) when he had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.
Marius was powerless in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
3rd set.
Gael in this set was too good for Marius and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking Copil in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Monfils scored 86 points vs. Copil’s 55 points.
Gael served pretty well to win 85% of the points (40/47) behind his first serve, and he won 52% points (14/27) on his second serve. Monfils was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that he procured (6/9). On the other side, Marius had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 17% of his break points (1/6). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Monfils and Copil is 1-0 for Gael.
Next Match: Gael Monfils vs. Denis Shapovalov – stats
Monfils will square off with Shapovalov in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Gael Monfils and Denis Shapovalov since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
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