Andreas Seppi outlasts Zhizhen Zhang 7-64 4-6 7-68 in the 2nd round in Zhuhai on Thursday after winning a huge battle. Seppi will seek to keep on going in this event against Roberto Bautista Agut in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Seppi enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Zhang in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for the Italian to win the set as Zhizhen managed to break back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 12th (6-6) game. The Italian maintained his focus before winning the set at the tiebreak at 3.
Andreas failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 15.
The Italian missed the chance to break Zhizhen in the 5th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Zhang conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).
3rd set.
Seppi won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Seppi broke back in the 8th (4-4) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 8.
Statistics
Seppi won this encounter even if he won less points than the Chinese (114 vs. 118).
Andreas won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 23% (3/13). On the other side, Zhang was effective when converting 80% of the break points that he procured points (4/5). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Seppi and Zhang is 1-0 for Andreas.
Next Match: Andreas Seppi vs. Roberto Bautista Agut – stats
Seppi will square off with Bautista Agut in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Andreas Seppi and Roberto Bautista Agut clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Bautista Agut (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bautista Agut won 6-1 3-6 6-1 in the 1st round in Rome back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in Zhuhai
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Pablo AndujarAndujar (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (3-6 7-5 ret.) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (7-64 4-6 7-68) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Cameron NorrieNorrie (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Borna CoricCoric – Di WuWu (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-3) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (4-1) – See H2H details
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (1-1) – See H2H details
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – See H2H details
