Jaume Munar beat Kyrian Jacquet in the quarterfinal of the Japan Open in Tokyo 6:4, 6:2 to reach the semifinal. The ATP 500 tournament is played on hard courts with a prize fund of 2.4 million dollars. The Spaniard took the first set with a one break-game margin, then pulled away further in the second. No match statistics are available in the api.tennis data, so the contest can only be judged by the score and by the path each player took through the tournament.
Munar's run from qualifying to the semifinal
The Spaniard began the tournament in qualifying. In the first round he beat Marcos Giron 5:7, 6:1, 6:4, and in the second round he defeated Alex Kovacevic 6:2, 6:3. In the main draw his first opponent was Taylor Fritz. The match went to three sets, and Munar won 6:7, 6:4, 6:3. In the round of 16 Jaime Faria lost to him 6:1, 6:1. Munar then beat Jacquet 6:4, 6:2. That gave him three straight main-draw wins, with his opponent failing to take a single set in two of them.
Jacquet also reached the quarterfinal without dropping a set. In the round of 32 he beat Holger Rune 6:3, 6:1, and in the round of 16 he defeated Luciano Darderi 6:3, 7:6. Before the Tokyo tournament, his results included a semifinal run at the AITO Hangzhou Open, where he lost to Andrey Rublev 6:7, 1:6.
According to rank.tennis, Munar is ranked 52nd with 1000 points. Jacquet sits at No. 74 with 768 points. Neither player was seeded at the tournament.