ZHUHAI. Damir Dzumhur tops Cecchinato in the 1st round

Damir Dzumhur victorious over Marco Cecchinato 5-7 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in Zhuhai on Tuesday.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Italian won the set after he broke Dzumhur in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 12^th (7-5) game. The Bosnian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Nevertheless, Cecchinato didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 7-5.

Cecchinato lost a big opportunity to break the Bosnian in the 10^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

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 Dzumhur conquered in the 7^th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).

3^rd set.

Dzumhur had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Cecchinato in the 1^st game (1-0). The Bosnian managed to boost his lead after breaking Marco in the 5^th (4-1) game before conquering the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Bosnian scored 101 points vs. the Italian’s 86 points.

Dzumhur won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 33% (4/12). On the other side, the Italian had some problems in converting his break points because he converted only 22% of his break points (2/9). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Dzumhur and Cecchinato is 2-4 for Marco.

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai

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• Andy MurrayMurray – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-7⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Ze ZhangZhang (7-6⁶ 7-5) – See score progression
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• Di WuWu – Tatsuma ItoIto (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-1 6-4) – See score progression

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