Pablo Carreno-Busta ousts Marius Copil 6-3 6-73 6-4 in the 2nd round in Salem Open on Tuesday. Carreno-Busta will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Lorenzo Sonego in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Pablo won the set after he broke Marius in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game. That break resulted decisive for Pablo to conquer the set since he didn’t drop his serve during the rest of the set.
2nd set.
Copil conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Carreno-Busta in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more to do for the Romanian to win the set since Pablo found the way to break back in the 10th (5-5) game. The Romanian kept his cool before winning the set at the breaker at 3.
3rd set.
Carreno-Busta had a favorable start in this set after breaking Copil in the 1st game (1-0). That break was the key and it was sufficient for the Spaniard to win the set (6-4) since there were no other breaks.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 96 points vs. Marius’s 92 points.
Pablo was pretty good in converting 80% of the break points that he procured (4/5). On the other side, the Romanian was struggling in converting his break points because he converted only 25% of his break points (1/4). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Carreno-Busta and Copil is 2-0 for Pablo.
Next Match: Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Lorenzo Sonego – stats
Carreno-Busta will face Sonego in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Pablo Carreno-Busta and Lorenzo Sonego play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sonego (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Sonego won 6-3 7-62 in the semifinal in Antalya back in June 2019.
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Denis ShapovalovDenis – Tennys SandgrenTennys (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- John MillmanJohn – Marco CecchinatoMarco (6-75 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Feliciano LopezFeliciano – Pablo AndujarPablo (6-4 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Casper RuudCasper – Lloyd HarrisLloyd (6-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Robin HaaseRobin – Joao SousaJoao (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Prajnesh GunneswaranPrajnesh (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicMiomir – Alexei PopyrinAlexei (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo – Damir DzumhurDamir (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Marius CopilMarius (6-3 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonSteve – Daniel EvansDaniel (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevAndrey – Albert Ramos-VinolasAlbert (6-75 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertUgo – Bjorn FratangeloBjorn (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeFrances – Jeremy ChardyJeremy (4-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Sam QuerreySam – Roberto Carballes BaenaRoberto (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHubert – Duckhee LeeDuckhee (4-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicFilip – Tomas BerdychTomas (3-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Feliciano LopezFeliciano – Hubert HurkaczHubert (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sam QuerreySam – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
- Robin HaaseRobin – John MillmanJohn (0-0) – See H2H details
- Benoit PaireBenoit – Ugo HumbertUgo (0-0) – See H2H details
- Filip KrajinovicFilip – Frances TiafoeFrances (2-0) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo (0-1) – See H2H details
- Casper RuudCasper – Steve JohnsonSteve (0-0) – See H2H details
- Miomir KecmanovicMiomir – Denis ShapovalovDenis (0-0) – See H2H details