TENNIS SCORES THE CARY CHALLENGER. Superlative Seppi extinguishes Smith in the 3rd round in the Cary Challenger

Andreas Seppi motors past John-Patrick Smith 6-3 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Cary Challenger on Thursday after playing a fantastic match to play Noah Rubin in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Seppi conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Seppi in this set didn’t concede much to Smith and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Smith 3 times in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (5-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

The Italian missed the opportunity to break Smith in the 3^rd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Smith had no answers in the last 6 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Italian scored 65 points vs. John-Patrick’s 50 points.

Seppi served extremely well to win 77% of the points (30/39) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (12/21) on his second serve. Seppi struck 12 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Andreas won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 33% (3/9). On the other side, Smith wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this contest, the head to head between Seppi and Smith is 1-0 for Andreas.

Next Match: Andreas Seppi vs. Noah Rubin – stats

Seppi will play Rubin in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Andreas Seppi and Noah Rubin since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

The last time that they locked horns, Rubin won 7-6⁴ 7-6⁴ in the quarter in New Haven Challenger back in September 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