Juan Carlos @ the Auckland Heineken open 2012

Juan Carlos Ferrero began his season in Auckland and the least that can be said is that it was not very well for the Spanish player since he lost to Benoit Paire , a French player from the qualifications, in two small sets(3-6/2-6) and within less than an hour !

* my opinion on the match : 

I could see the match on the web and the only positive point of the match was that I found Juan in a very good physical shape and it is a good thing because of all physical problems he had last year! In contrast to the level of the game, up to 3-3 in the first set all was well but after I found that Juan Carlos had been too in a waiting mood , he has not created opportunities and  expected too much the mistakes(that never came !) of his opponent . result: it is rather Paire that raised his game and Juan suffered without ever being able to implement his game . What is a pity cos  Juan Carlos had the physical form to go far in this tournament ! 

* let's see now the statistics of the match where it is interesting to see that Juan has good percentages in the first service but that he has cruelly sinned at the level of the aces because he did none against 8 for his opponent! 

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Benoit Paire vs Juan Carlos Ferrero :

*1st SERVE % 

BP : 22/53 (42 %)

JCF : 33/ 51 (65 %) 

*1st SERVE POINTS WON 

BP : 19/22 (86 %) 

JCF : 19/ 33 (58 %) 

*2nd SERVE POINTS WON 

BP : 20/31 (65 %) 

JCF : 9/18 (50 %) 

*BREAK POINTS WON

BP : 3/8 (38 %) 

JCF : 0/1 (0 %) 

*TOTAL RETURN POINTS WON

BP : 23/51 (45 %) 

JCF : 14/ 53 (26 %) 

*TOTAL POINTS WON 

BP : 62/ 104 (60 %) 

JCF : 42/104 (40 %) 

*DOUBLE FAULTS 

BP : 0 

JCF : 2 

*ACES 

BP : 8 

JCF : 0