SHANGHAI. Carreno-Busta gets the better of Zhang in the 1st round

Pablo Carreno-Busta conquers Ze Zhang 6-3 2-6 6-4 in the 1^st round in Shanghai on Monday. Carreno-Busta will engage against Dominic Thiem in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Spaniard conquered in the 8^th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Zhang in this set was in much better shape than the Spaniard and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking the Spaniard in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Pablo was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

3^rd set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that the Spaniard conquered in the 9^th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Carreno-Busta scored 89 points vs. the Chinese’s 77 points.

Carreno-Busta served extremely well to win 75% of the points (38/51) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (15/22) on his second serve. Pablo won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 20% (2/10). On the other side, Ze was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Carreno-Busta and Zhang is 1-0 for Pablo.

Next Match: Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Dominic Thiem – stats

Carreno-Busta will fight against Thiem in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 6^th time that Pablo Carreno-Busta and Dominic Thiem fight against each other. The head to head is 5-0 for Thiem (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Thiem won 6-3 3-6 6-4 in the R in London back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Ze ZhangZhang (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-5 6-7¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Christian GarinGarin – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Gilles SimonSimon (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (7-6² 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (2-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Fabio FogniniFognini – Andy MurrayMurray (3-4) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (1-0) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-0) – See H2H details
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Roger FedererFederer (1-1) – See H2H details
• Zhe LiLi – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – See H2H details
• Guido PellaPella – John MillmanMillman (1-0) – See H2H details
• David GoffinGoffin – Richard GasquetGasquet (2-1) – See H2H details
• Joao SousaSousa – Vasek PospisilPospisil (4-0) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-1) – See H2H details
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Dominic ThiemThiem (0-5) – See H2H details
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Benoit PairePaire (0-3) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Jeremy ChardyChardy (3-1) – See H2H details
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Borna CoricCoric (2-0) – See H2H details
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John IsnerIsner (0-1) – See H2H details
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details