Julian Lenz stuns Roberto Marcora 6-3 7-64 in the 2nd round in the Ortisei Challenger on Thursday. Lenz will engage against Antoine Hoang in the quarter.
Live score progression and stats
Lenz had a favorable start in this set after breaking Marcora in the 2nd game (2-0). However, there was more work to do for Lenz to win the set since Roberto succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Lenz maintained his cool to break the Italian in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
Lenz converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40) and the 6th game (3-2 30-40 and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Marcora converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40) and the 7th game (2-4 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 57 points. Lenz won 7 points more than Marcora (32-25). The German conceded 13 points on serve (21-13). On the losing side, the Italian conceded 11 points on serve (12-11).
Lenz came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Marcora in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for the German to win the set because Roberto found the way to break back in the 10th (5-5) game. The German kept his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
Julian won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 8th (5-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Roberto won a minibreak in the 6th (3-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-c
The German converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40) and the 5th game (3-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Italian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (4-5 30-40).
They contested 89 points. Lenz was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than the Italian (47-42). Lenz surrendered 14 points on serve (29-14). On the other side, Marcora conceded 18 points on serve (28-18).
Julian will add to his prize money € 530 after winning this match. He has won already € 1,260 after this win. If he wins the next match, the German will add € 900 to his earnings to get in total € 2,160 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Julian scored 79 points vs. Marcora’s 67.
Julian served pretty well to win 83% of the points (38/46) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 39% points (12/31) on his second serve. Julian was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Marcora was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Lenz and Marcora is 1-0 for Julian.
Draw and next match H2H: Julian Lenz vs. Antoine Hoang – stats
Lenz will take on Hoang in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Julian Lenz and Antoine Hoang play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Lenz (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
Tennis Scores in Ortisei Challenger
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Martin KlizanKlizan (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Julian LenzLenz – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-3 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (7-66 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hugo GrenierGrenier (w/o) – Stats and score progression
- Federico GaioGaio – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Jay ClarkeClarke (7-62 6-74 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Antoine HoangHoang – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Federico GaioGaio – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Julian LenzLenz – Antoine HoangHoang (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tomas MachacMachac – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (0-0) – H2H details and stats