Summer in the States 2012 #16

In his opening singles match in Lexington, Greg was up against against 21 year-old American Chase Buchanan, who had promised much as a junior but had yet to deliver in the seniors. An Ohio State college player, Buchanan is currently at his ranking high of 585, so in good form lately.
With Buchanan serving first, both players held serve, then Greg found himself facing breakpoint after missing his first serves, losing the point to fall a break behind at 1-2. He rallied and broke back immediately to level at 2-2 and take the initiative away from Buchanan. Games then went with serve, with both players struggling in the hot and very humid conditions, to the tie-break at 6 games all. In the tie-break, Greg upped the ante and took the game to Buchanan, getting away to a 5-1, then 6-2 lead. Buchanan fought back and reduced the deficit to 4-6, then put the pressure back on Greg, forcing him to serve for the tie-break at 6-5. A timely ace, in a set of poor serving, sealed the tie-break 7-5, pouching the 1st set 7-6.

Chase Buchanan

With the 1st set under his belt, a more relaxed Greg, now serving first in this set, improved his serving stats and attacked Buchanan's serve, bringing up 9 break point opportunities, whilst facing none on his own serve for the set. Greg was able to take advantage of some of those opportunities, breaking twice to take a double break lead and then bringing up breal-point on Buchanan again, this time a match point, going on to break and win the set 6-1, for an emphatic 7-6(5), 6-1 win.
Greg said he knew that in the hot humid conditions winning the first set would be crucial and that whoever lost that set would battle to win the match, and so it proved to be.