Denis Shapovalov aces Fabio Fognini 3-6 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Paris on Wednesday. Shapovalov will face off with Alexander Zverev in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Italian won the set after he broke the Canadian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. The Canadian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Anyhow, Fabio kept the situation under control before winning the set 6-3.
2nd set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Shapovalov conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Shapovalov took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Fognini in the 1st game (1-0). The Canadian managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the Italian in the 9th (6-3) game before conquering the set.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Canadian scored 83 points vs. Fognini’s 76 points.
Shapovalov served exceptionally well to win 77% of the points (33/43) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (19/35) on his second serve. Shapovalov fired 14 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Shapovalov was effective when converting 57% of the break points that he conquered (4/7). On the other side, the Italian was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 33% of his break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Shapovalov and Fognini is 2-0 for Denis.
Next Match: Denis Shapovalov vs. Alexander Zverev – stats
Shapovalov will square off with Zverev in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Denis Shapovalov and Alexander Zverev play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Zverev (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Zverev won 6-4 6-1 in the semifinal in Madrid back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Paris
- Christian GarinGarin – John IsnerIsner (7-65 7-64) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – David GoffinGoffin (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Marin CilicCilic (7-63 7-65) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Fabio FogniniFognini (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-62 7-61) – See score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Milos RaonicRaonic (7-65 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-65 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Andreas SeppiSeppi (7-65 7-66) – See score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Rafael NadalNadal (3-18) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Kyle EdmundEdmund (4-1) – See H2H details
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Christian GarinGarin (3-1) – See H2H details
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Dominic ThiemThiem (2-2) – See H2H details
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (2-3) – See H2H details
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-0) – See H2H details
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-3) – See H2H details