Pablo Carreno-Busta upsets David Goffin 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Metz on Thursday after playing a good match to face off with Aljaz Bedene in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Carreno-Busta conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Carreno-Busta had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Goffin in the 1st game (1-0). However, there was more to do for Carreno-Busta to win the set because the Belgian found the way to break back in the 4th (2-2) game. Pablo kept his cool to break the Belgian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
David couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Pablo scored 58 points vs. the Belgian’s 40 points.
Pablo won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, David was exceptional in converting all the break points (1/1). However, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Carreno-Busta and Goffin is 2-1 for Pablo.
Next Match: Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Aljaz Bedene – stats
Carreno-Busta will square off with Bedene in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Pablo Carreno-Busta and Aljaz Bedene square off. The head to head is 2-2 for Carreno-Busta and Bedene (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Carreno-Busta won 6-2 4-0 ret. in the 2nd round in Hamburg back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Metz
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Yannick MadenMaden (6-2 7-66) – See score progression
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Gilles SimonSimon (7-69 6-2) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Antoine HoangHoang (3-6 7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Richard GasquetGasquet (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (1-1) – See H2H details
- Benoit PairePaire – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – See H2H details
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Lucas PouillePouille (0-2) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Aljaz BedeneBedene (2-2) – See H2H details