SHANGHAI. Matteo Berrettini ousts Bautista-Agut in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters

Matteo Berrettini downs Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6⁵ 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Shanghai on Thursday. Berrettini will face off with Dominic Thiem in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Berrettini won the set after he broke Roberto in the 3^rd (2-1) game. Roberto tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10^th (5-5) game. Yet, Matteo stayed solid before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.

2^nd set.

Berrettini conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, The Italian broke back in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 10^th (6-4) game before winning the set 6-4.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Matteo scored 81 points vs. Bautista-Agut’s 67 points.

Berrettini served pretty well to win 87% of the points (34/39) behind his first serve. Nonetheless he won only 45% points (14/31) on his second serve. Matteo blasted 13 aces and he committed 3 double faults. The Italian was well focused in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered (3/5). On the other side, Bautista-Agut was not so effective in converting his break points because he converted only 40% of his break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Berrettini and Bautista-Agut is 3-1 for Matteo.

Next Match: Matteo Berrettini vs. Dominic Thiem – stats

Berrettini will play Thiem in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Matteo Berrettini and Dominic Thiem play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Thiem (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Thiem won 6-3 6-7⁵ 6-3 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Paris back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

• Roger FedererFederer – David GoffinGoffin (7-6⁷ 6-4) – See score progression
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Vasek PospisilPospisil (7-6⁷ 7-5) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (7-5 3-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Andrey RublevRublev (6-0 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Dominic ThiemThiem – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – John IsnerIsner (7-5 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-1) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Fabio FogniniFognini (1-1) – See H2H details
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Roger FedererFederer (3-3) – See H2H details
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Dominic ThiemThiem (0-1) – See H2H details