SHANGHAI. Benoit Paire bests Cecchinato in the 1st round

Benoit Paire aces Marco Cecchinato 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in Shanghai on Monday. Paire will seek to keep on going in this event against Nikoloz Basilashvili in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Paire in this set didn’t concede much to Marco and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Marco in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Cecchinato lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Paire conquered in the 11^th game (6-5) before winning the set (7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Benoit scored 69 points vs. Marco’s 56 points.

The French Player served very well to win 91% of the points (29/32) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (11/22) on his second serve. The French Player blasted 10 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Benoit was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (3/6). On the other side, the Italian wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Paire and Cecchinato is 2-0 for Benoit.

Next Match: Benoit Paire vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili – stats

Paire will compete against Basilashvili in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 4^th time that Benoit Paire and Nikoloz Basilashvili play each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Paire (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Paire won 6-1 7-6⁵ in the semifinal in Metz back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

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• Fabio FogniniFognini – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Christian GarinGarin – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (2-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (7-6² 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-5 6-7(1) 6-3) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 7-6(3)) – See score progression

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