Carlos Taberner breezes past Joao Domingues 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger on Tuesday after playing a good match to play Alexey Vatutin in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Carlos clinched in the 4th game (3-1) prior to eventually winning the set (6-3).
Carlos converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th game (2-1 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Taberner didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 44 points. Taberner was the winner of the set after clinching 12 more points than the Portuguese (28-16). Carlos was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (20-3). on the other side of the net, the Portuguese conceded 8 points on serve (13-8).
Domingues had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Taberner in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, Taberner refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Joao 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game before winning the set (6-2).
The Portuguese had no answers in the last 6 games of the set when the scoreline went from 0-2 to 6-2.
Taberner converted 75% of his break points (3/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 15-40), the 4th (2-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). Also, on the other side, the Portuguese converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A) and the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 47 points. The Spaniard won 11 more points than Joao (29-18). Taberner dropped 10 points on serve (16-10). Regarding the other side of the net, Joao conceded 13 points on serve (8-13).
Taberner will add to his prize money $ 340 after winning this match. He has won already $ 860 after this win. If he wins the next match, Taberner will add $ 600 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,460 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 57 points vs. Domingues’s 34.
The Spaniard was pretty good at converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6). On the other side, the Portuguese was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Taberner and Domingues is 2-0 for Carlos.
Draw and next match H2H: Carlos Taberner vs. Alexey Vatutin – stats
Taberner will face Vatutin in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Carlos Taberner and Alexey Vatutin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vatutin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Vatutin won 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Cherbourg Challenger back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Maia Challenger
- Gastao EliasElias – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (2-6 7-5 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Pedro SousaSousa – Maxime HamouHamou (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Julian LenzLenz (6-1 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (5-7 7-67 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Daniel MasurMasur (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-5 3-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Gastao EliasElias – Pedro SousaSousa (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Quentin HalysHalys – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H details and stats