Ulises Blanch motors past Ben Patael 6-1 6-4 in the 3rd round in Cary Challenger on Thursday after playing a remarkable match to fight against Jc Aragone in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Blanch conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Fatael in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. The American reinforced his lead after breaking Ben in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
2nd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the American conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Ulises scored 57 points vs. Ben’s 38 points.
Blanch served extremely well to win 88% of the points (29/33) behind his first serve, and he won 59% points (10/17) on his second serve. The American was effective when converting 60% of the break points that he procured (3/5). On the other side, the Israeli wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Blanch and Fatael is 1-0.
Next Match: Ulises Blanch vs. Jc Aragone – stats
Blanch will compete against Aragone in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Ulises Blanch and Jc Aragone since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
The last time that they played each other, Aragone won 7-65 2-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Newport Beach Challenger back in January 2019.
Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Jc AragoneAragone – Daniel NguyenNguyen (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ben PataelPatael (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-4 6-73 7-65) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (7-60 6-4) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Donald YoungYoung (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – John-Patrick SmithSmith (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Noah RubinRubin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jc AragoneAragone – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – See H2H details
- Michael MmohMmoh – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – See H2H details