Alexey Vatutin surprises Ernests Gulbis 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in St. Petersburg on Monday. Vatutin will play Marton Fucsovics in the 1st 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 the Latvian conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Vatutin won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 5th (2-3) game, Alexey broke back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set 6-3.
The Latvian couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).
3rd set.
Vatutin in this set was too strong for Gulbis and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking the Latvian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Vatutin scored 85 points vs. Gulbis’s 74 points.
The Russian served extremely well to win 81% of the points (38/47) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 47% points (15/32) on his second serve. Vatutin won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, the Latvian was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points because he converted only 29% of his break points (2/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Vatutin and Gulbis is 1-0 for Alexey.
Next Match: Alexey Vatutin vs. Marton Fucsovics – stats
Vatutin will come up against Fucsovics in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Alexey Vatutin and Marton Fucsovics since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-5 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Ernests GulbisGulbis (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Matteo ViolaViola (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Lukas RosolRosol – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (4-6 7-68 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Janko TipsarevicTipsarevic – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dudi SelaSela – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – See H2H details
- Lukas RosolRosol – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-2) – See H2H details
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Matteo ViolaViola (1-1) – See H2H details
- Joao SousaSousa – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – See H2H details
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Martin KlizanKlizan (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – See H2H details
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