Andrej Martin aces Guilherme Clezar 3-6 7-62 6-4 in the quarter in L’Aquila Challenger on Saturday. Martin will face Dmitry Popko in the semifinal.
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 Guilherme conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
The Slovakian won the set after he broke Guilherme in the 6th (4-2) game. The Brazilian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Yet, the Slovakian stayed solid before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 2.
3rd set.
Martin had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Clezar in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Andrej to win the set because the Brazilian found the way to break back in the 4th (2-2) game. Martin maintained his cool to break Clezar in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Andrej scored 102 points vs. Guilherme’s 95 points.
Andrej won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, Clezar was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this encounter, the head to head between Martin and Clezar is 2-1.
Next Match: Andrej Martin vs. Dmitry Popko – stats
Martin will square off with Popko in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Andrej Martin and Dmitry Popko since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
The last time that they played, Martin won 5-7 6-4 6-4 in the final in Shymkent Challenger back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in L’Aquila Challenger
- Andrej MartinMartin – Guilherme ClezarClezar (3-6 7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (7-68 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (2-6 6-2 7-66) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrej MartinMartin – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – See H2H details
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – See H2H details