Fabio Fognini survives Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4 4-6 7-66 in the 1st round in Beijing on Tuesday after winning a huge battle. Fognini is going to play against Andrey Rublev in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Fognini had a strong start of this set after breaking Kukushkin in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Fabio to win the set because the Kazakhstani managed to break back in the 8th (4-4) game. The Italian maintained his cool to break the Kazakhstani in the 9th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Fognini had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Kukushkin in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, Mikhail succeeded in coming back to break the Italian 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 6th (3-3) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
3rd set.
Fabio won the set after he broke Kukushkin in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (4-5) game. Mikhail tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (3-5) game. Notwithstanding, Fognini stayed solid before winning the set at the following breaker at 6.
Statistics
Fabio won this contest even if he scored less points than Mikhail (101 vs. 105).
Fabio won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, the Kazakhstani was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 40% of his break points (6/15). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Fognini and Kukushkin is 3-2 for Fabio.
Next Match: Fabio Fognini vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Fognini will take on Rublev in the 2nd round.
This will be the 6th time that Fabio Fognini and Andrey Rublev fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Fognini (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Fognini won 4-6 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Monte carlo back in April 2019.
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- John IsnerIsner – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-62 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Dusan LajovicLajovic (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-62 7-67) – See score progression
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Guido PellaPella (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-4 4-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 3-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-77 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Christian GarinGarin (7-65 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-2 7-67) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Zhe LiLi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-2) – See H2H details
- John IsnerIsner – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Jeremy ChardyChardy (0-0) – See H2H details
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevRublev – Fabio FogniniFognini (1-4) – See H2H details
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-1) – See H2H details
