Marco Cecchinato victorious over Alexey Vatutin 6-3 6-3 in the 3rd round in Szczecin Challenger on Thursday. Cecchinato is going to play against Taro Daniel in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Cecchinato had a great start in this set after breaking Vatutin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, there was more to do for Marco to win the set since Alexey found the way to break back in the 5th (2-3) and in the 7th (3-4) game. Marco maintained his focus to break Vatutin in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Marco won the set after he broke Alexey 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Alexey tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) game. Anyhow, the Italian didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-3.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Italian won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Marco scored 72 points vs. the Russian’s 50 points.
Marco was effective when converting 67% of the break points that he conquered (6/9). On the other side, the Russian was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 30% of his break points (3/10). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Cecchinato and Vatutin is 2-0.
Next Match: Marco Cecchinato vs. Taro Daniel – stats
Cecchinato will face Daniel in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Marco Cecchinato and Taro Daniel square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cecchinato (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Cecchinato won 6-1 6-2 in the qualifications in Rio de Janiero back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Szczecin Challenger
- Jeremy JahnJahn – Gianluca MagerMager (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Pawel CiasCias (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (5-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Facundo ArguelloArguello (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Jeremy JahnJahn (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – See H2H details
- Taro DanielDaniel – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-1) – See H2H details
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (0-0) – See H2H details
