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

Upcoming matches

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