Toronto Masters: Rune through to third round, serving better than Mpetshi Perricard!
Holger Rune defeated Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 7-6 (7), 6-3 on Tuesday evening and will face the winner of the match between Frenchman Alexandre Muller, the No 29 seed, and Serb Miomir Kecmanovic in the next round
Holger Rune – UTS London 2024 (Image Credit: UTS)
Dane Holger Rune, the No 5 seed, defeated Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 7-6 (7), 6-3 to advance to the third round of the Toronto Masters at the Aviva Centre on Tuesday.
Rune served 12 aces to Mpetshi Perricard’s 7 and was especially dominant on his own service games, winning 87% of points on his first serve and 86% behind his second. Notably, he did not face a single break point during the 76-minute contest.
In contrast, Mpetshi Perricard, despite his reputation for a huge serve, was less effective, especially in key moments, including two costly double faults that contributed directly to losing both the first set (in the tie-break) and a pivotal game in the second set.
Statistically, Rune even edged Mpetshi Perricard on second serve points (Rune 85.7% vs. Mpetshi Perricard 57.1%). This serving performance allowed Rune to keep the Frenchman under constant pressure and ultimately secured his spot in the third round, reversing the result from their previous encounter, which Mpetshi Perricard had won last year in Basel.
Rune, who played his first match of the US season after his withdrawal at Washington, will next face Alexandre Muller who defeated Miomir Kecmanovic.
In the previous round of the Rogers Cup, Mpetshi Perricard, ranked No 45, won against Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki (6-4, 6-2).
Toronto Masters 1000, other second-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):
- Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Taylor Fritz
- Fabian Marozsan vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime
- Francisco Comesana vs. Alex De Minaur
- Arthur Fils vs. Pablo Carreno Busta
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Mackenzie McDonald vs. Jiri Lehecka
- Gabriel Diallo vs. Matteo Gigante
- Tristan Boyer vs. Jakub Mensik
- Brandon Nakashima vs. Ethan Quinn
- Frances Tiafoe vs. Yosuke Watanuki
- Yunchaokete Bu vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Adrian Mannarino vs. Ben Shelton
- Flavio Cobolli vs. Alexis Galarneau
- Aleksandar Vukic vs. Cameron Norrie
- Andrey Rublev vs. Hugo Gaston
- Alexander Zverev vs. Adam Walton
- Denis Shapovalov vs. Learner Tien
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Dalibor Svrcina
- Roman Safiullin vs. Casper Ruud
- Reilly Opelka vs. Tomas Machac
- Tristan Schoolkate vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Nuno Borges vs. Facundo Bagnis
- Jaume Munar vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Nicolas Arseneault vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. James Duckworth
- Karen Khachanov vs. Juan Pablo Ficovich: tuesday
- Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Alex Michelsen: tuesday
- Alexandre Muller vs. Miomir Kecmanovic: tuesday
- Emilio Nava (Q) beat Terence Atmane (LL): 6-2, 7-5
