THE NINGBOO CHALLENGER RESULTS. Frederico Ferreira Silva upsets Ito in the 3rd round

Frederico Ferreira Silva upsets Tatsuma Ito 6-4 7-6⁵ in the 3^rd round in Ningboo Challenger on Thursday. Ferreira Silva will clash against Yasutaka Uchiyama in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Ferreira Silva didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Ito in the 1^st game (1-0). That break defined the set and it was sufficient for Frederico to win the set (6-4) as there were no other breaks.

2^nd set.

Frederico won the set after he broke the Japanese in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game. Tatsuma tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Nonetheless, Frederico stayed solid before winning the set at the following breaker at 5.

A crucial moment of the match was when the Portuguese won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.

Nonetheless also Ito won 4 consecutive games from 1-4 to 5-4

Statistics

At the end of the match, Frederico scored 67 points vs. Ito’s 65 points.

Ferreira Silva was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Ito was pretty good in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Ferreira Silva and Ito is 1-0.

Next Match: Frederico Ferreira Silva vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama – stats

Ferreira Silva will compete against Uchiyama in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Frederico Ferreira Silva and Yasutaka Uchiyama since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.

Tennis Scores in Ningboo Challenger

• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Enrique Lopez-PerezLopez-Perez (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Tsung-Hua YangYang (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Akira SantillanSantillan (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Steven DiezDiez – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-6¹ 7-5) – See score progression
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Bradley KlahnKlahn – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (7-6⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Borna GojoGojo – Ze ZhangZhang (6-3 6-7⁴ 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Bradley KlahnKlahn (0-1) – See H2H details
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – See H2H details
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – See H2H details