Marin Cilic aces Roberto Bautista Agut 6-73 6-4 6-0 5-7 6-3 in the 3rd round in Melbourne on Friday. Cilic will face Milos Raonic in the 4th round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Eventually, Bautista-Agut won the breaker at 3.
2nd set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Cilic conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
3rd set.
This was a one way set after the Croatian conceded no games to Bautista-Agut before winning the set 6-0.
4th set.
Cilic had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Bautista-Agut in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Bautista-Agut was not done to come back to break the Croatian in the 6th (3-3) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
5th set.
Cilic was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Bautista-Agut in the 1st game (1-0). Cilic improved his lead after breaking Bautista-Agut in the 9th (6-3) game before winning the set.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Croatian scored 168 points vs. Bautista-Agut’s 149 points.
The Croatian served extremely well to win 77% of the points (75/97) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (28/52) on his second serve. Marin fired 24 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Marin won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 37% (7/19). On the other side, the Spaniard wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 20% – 2/10). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Cilic and Bautista-Agut is 5-2 for Marin.
Highlights Marin Cilic vs. Roberto Bautista Agut Australian Open – Melbourne
Next Match H2H: Marin Cilic vs. Milos Raonic – stats
Cilic will compete against Raonic in the 4th round.
This will be the 4th time that Marin Cilic and Milos Raonic play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but Raonic leads 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cilic won 7-63 6-3 in the final in Istanbul back in 2017.
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