TENNIS SCORES ST. PETERSBURG. Superb Berrettini blitzes Carballes Baena in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Open

Matteo Berrettini trashes Roberto Carballes Baena 6-1 6-2 in the 2^nd round in St. Petersburg on Thursday after playing a good match to come up against Egor Gerasimov in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Berrettini was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Carballes Baena in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Matteo improved his lead after breaking the Spaniard in the 4^th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Berrettini won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

Matteo in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay Carballes Baena and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking the Spaniard in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Berrettini won 5 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Berrettini scored 56 points vs. Carballes Baena’s 29 points.

Matteo served exceptionally well to win 88% of the points (23/26) behind his first serve, and he won 75% points (9/12) on his second serve. The Italian was pretty good in converting 80% of the break points that he procured (4/5). On the other side, the Spaniard wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Berrettini and Carballes Baena is 1-0 for Matteo.

Next Match: Matteo Berrettini vs. Egor Gerasimov – stats

Berrettini will compete against Gerasimov in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Matteo Berrettini and Egor Gerasimov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

The last time that they competed against each other, Berrettini won 7-6⁷ 6-3 in the semifinal in Andria Challenger back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Borna CoricCoric – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-7⁵ 7-5 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Casper RuudRuud – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Joao SousaSousa (2-1) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Andrey RublevRublev (1-0) – See H2H details
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Casper RuudRuud – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details