CHENGDU. Carreno-Busta conquers Albot in the 1st round

Pablo Carreno-Busta tops Radu Albot 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Chengdu on Tuesday. Carreno-Busta will play against Benoit Paire in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Carreno-Busta didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Albot in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That was sufficient for Carreno-Busta to win the set (6-3) as there were no other breaks.

2^nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Pablo conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Carreno-Busta scored 67 points vs. Radu’s 52 points.

Carreno-Busta served very well to win 85% of the points (29/34) behind his first serve, and he won 59% points (13/22) on his second serve. Carreno-Busta won this match even if he was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 20% (2/10). On the other side, the Moldovan wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Carreno-Busta and Albot is 1-1.

Next Match: Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Benoit Paire – stats

Carreno-Busta will play Paire in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 12^th time that Pablo Carreno-Busta and Benoit Paire fight against each other. The head to head is 8-3 for Paire (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Paire won 7-6⁵ 1-6 6-3 in the quarter in Salem back in August 2019.

Tennis Scores in Chengdu

• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Bradley KlahnKlahn – Jason JungJung (4-6 6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Yan BaiBai (6-3 4-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Christian GarinGarin – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Zhe LiLi – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – See H2H details
• Daniel EvansEvans – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (1-1) – See H2H details
• Richard BerankisBerankis – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – See H2H details
• Benoit PairePaire – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (8-3) – See H2H details
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – See H2H details
• Hyeon ChungChung – Joao SousaSousa (1-0) – See H2H details
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details