MELBOURNE RESULTS. Schwartzman beats Lajovic in the 3rd round

Diego Sebastian Schwartzman wins against Dusan Lajovic 6-2 6-3 7-6⁷ in the 3^rd round in Melbourne on Friday. Schwartzman will seek to keep on going in this event against Novak Djokovic in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Schwartzman in this set didn’t concede much to Dusan and finally he won 6-2 after breaking the Serbian in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Lajovic was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Schwartzman won the set after he broke the Serbian in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Dusan tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Nonetheless, the Argentine maintained the focus before winning the set 6-3.

3^rd set.

Schwartzman started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Lajovic in the 1^st game (1-0). However, that wasn’t sufficient for the Argentine to win the set since the Serbian found the way to break back in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 6^th (4-2) game. Diego maintained his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 7.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Argentine scored 102 points vs. the Serbian’s 79 points.

The Argentine was effective in converting 64% of the break points that he procured (7/11). On the other side, Dusan was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (4/6). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Schwartzman and Lajovic is 3-1 for Diego.

Highlights Diego Sebastian Schwartzman vs. Dusan Lajovic Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Diego Sebastian Schwartzman vs. Novak Djokovic – stats

Schwartzman will fight against Djokovic in the 4^th round.

This will be the 4^th time that Diego Sebastian Schwartzman and Novak Djokovic play each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Djokovic won 6-3 6-7² 6-3 in the semifinal in Rome back in 2019.

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

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• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-3 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Milos RaonicRaonic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (7-5 6-4 7-6²) – See score progression
• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-2 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Marin CilicCilic – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-7³ 6-4 6-0 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Guido PellaPella (7-6(0) 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Roger FedererFederer – John MillmanMillman (4-6 7-6(2) 6-4 4-6 7-6(8)) – See score progression

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