SHANGHAI. Thiem aces Basilashvili in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters

Dominic Thiem defeats Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Shanghai on Thursday. Thiem will have to play Matteo Berrettini in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Dominic won the set after he broke Nikoloz in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Basilashvili tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Yet, Dominic kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Thiem had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Basilashvili in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Austrian to win the set because the Georgean succeeded in breaking back in the 8^th (3-5) game.

The Austrian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 15.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Thiem scored 65 points vs. the Georgean’s 52 points.

Thiem was effective in converting 67% of the break points that he procured (4/6). On the other side, the Georgean didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Thiem and Basilashvili is 1-1.

Next Match: Dominic Thiem vs. Matteo Berrettini – stats

Thiem will face Berrettini in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Dominic Thiem and Matteo Berrettini play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Thiem (see full H2H stats), but they have never played 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 Roland Garros back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

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