
Learner Tien overcomes Flavio Cobolli 6-3 2-6 10-7 in the Round Robin at the Laver Cup on Saturday. The match lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Highlights Learner Tien vs. Flavio Cobolli Laver Cup – London
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
The American won this match even if he scored the same amount of points of Cobolli (68 vs. 68).
Tien
Learner was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6).
Cobolli
On the other side, Cobolli had some problems converting his break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Tien and Cobolli is 2-1 for Learner.
Live score progression and stats
Tien had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Flavio Cobolli in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for the American to win the set as Flavio managed to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. Learner kept his focus to break the Italian in the 9th (6-3) game.
A defining moment of this set was when Learner won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the score from 0-0 to 4-0.
Tien converted 50% of his break points (3/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 2nd (2-0 40-A), the 7th (4-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). In addition on the other side, Cobolli converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had his opportunities in the 6th game (1-4 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 70 points. Learner was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Cobolli (39-31). The American surrendered 13 points on serve (17-13). on the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 22 points on serve (18-22).
The Italian in this set was in much better shape than Tien and without too much struggle he won 6-2 after breaking Tien in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A defining moment of this set was when the Italian won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.
Flavio was on the money in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 15-40) and the 5th game (3-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Flavio didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 49 points. Flavio conquered the set after winning 11 points more than Learner (30-19). Flavio surrendered 6 points on serve (16-6). On the other side, Tien conceded 14 points on serve (13-14).
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, the American won a thrilling breaker 10-7 after a huge fight with 17 points played.
Tiebreak
The American won 5 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 12th (8-4), 16th (9-7) and 17th (10-7) point. On the other side, Cobolli won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 5th (2-3), 14th (6-8) and 15th (7-8) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4, 8-4, 8-5, 8-6, 8-7, 9-7, 10-7
Tien was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (4-4). In addition, on the other side, Cobolli conceded 6 points on serve (4-6).
Tennis Scores in Laver Cup
- Learner TienTien – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 2-6 10-7)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Jakub MensikMensik (6-1 3-6 10-7)
- Casper RuudRuud – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-74 6-4 10-8)
- Rafael JodarJodar – Alexander BublikBublik (6-2 6-3)
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