MOSCOW. Andreas Seppi victorious over Carballes Baena in the 2nd round

Andreas Seppi victorious over Roberto Carballes Baena 5-7 6-1 6-3 in the 2^nd round in Moscow on Wednesday. Seppi will have to play Karen Khachanov in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Carballes Baena overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Seppi in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Carballes Baena to win the set because Seppi managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. Carballes Baena maintained his cool to break Andreas in the 9^th (5-4) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

The Spaniard failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 30.

2^nd set.

Carballes Baena overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Seppi in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, Andreas found the way to come back to break Roberto 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 6^th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).

The Spaniard couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Seppi conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Carballes Baena in the 1^st game (1-0). Andreas reinforced his lead after breaking Roberto in the 9^th (6-3) game before managing to win the set.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Andreas scored 96 points vs. the Spaniard’s 79 points.

Seppi won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points since he converted only 47% (7/15). On the other side, Roberto was pretty focused in converting 57% of the break points that he conquered points (4/7). Yet, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Seppi and Carballes Baena is 1-0 for Andreas.

Next Match: Andreas Seppi vs. Karen Khachanov – stats

Seppi will play Khachanov in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Andreas Seppi and Karen Khachanov square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they squared off, Khachanov won 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in Vienna back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in Moscow

• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (3-6 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (5-7 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Lukas RosolRosol (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – See H2H details
• Marin CilicCilic – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (3-3) – See H2H details
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-2) – See H2H details
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Andrey RublevRublev (1-0) – See H2H details
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Alen AvidzbaAvidzba (0-0) – See H2H details