Salvatore Caruso defeats Viktor Galovic 6-4 7-63 in the 3rd round in Seville Challenger on Thursday. Caruso will face Carlos Alcaraz Garfia in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Caruso had a strong start of this set after breaking Galovic in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, that wasn’t sufficient for the Italian to win the set since Galovic succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Salvatore kept his focus to break Viktor in the 7th (4-3) game before conquering the set (6-4).
Caruso wasted a good opportunity to break Viktor in the 9th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
Salvatore clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Caruso broke back in the 5th (2-3) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 82 points vs. Viktor’s 73 points.
Caruso won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, the Croatian was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Caruso and Galovic is 5-2.
Next Match: Salvatore Caruso vs. Carlos Alcaraz Garfia – stats
Caruso will fight against Alcaraz Garfia in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Carlos Alcaraz Garfia since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
Tennis Scores in Seville Challenger
- Inigo CervantesCervantes – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-0 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Viktor GalovicGalovic (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (3-6 7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Guillermo Garcia-LopezGarcia-Lopez – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (1-6 7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (5-7 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-0) – See H2H details
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Inigo CervantesCervantes (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Guillermo Garcia-LopezGarcia-Lopez (1-0) – See H2H details
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-0) – See H2H details