Alessandro Giannessi victorious over Pedro Sousa 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the 3rd round in on Thursday. Giannessi will seek to keep on going in this event against Marco Cecchinato in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Sousa had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Giannessi in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for the Portuguese to win the set because the Italian managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (3-3) game. Pedro maintained his focus to break Giannessi in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (4-3) game before conquering the set (6-4).
2nd set.
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Giannessi conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Alessandro won the set after he broke Sousa in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game. The Portuguese tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Nonetheless, Giannessi didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Alessandro scored 92 points vs. Sousa’s 81 points.
Giannessi was pretty good in converting 71% of the break points that he procured (5/7). On the other side, the Portuguese was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (4/6). However, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Giannessi and Sousa is 4-2 for Pedro.
Next Match H2H: Alessandro Giannessi vs. Marco Cecchinato – stats
Giannessi will fight against Cecchinato in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Alessandro Giannessi and Marco Cecchinato face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cecchinato (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cecchinato won 7-65 6-74 6-2 in the qualifications in Rio de Janeiro back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Punta Del Este Challenger
- Andrej MartinMartin – Hernan CasanovaCasanova (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Martin CuevasCuevas (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-65 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Pedro SousaSousa (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (5-7 6-0 5-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Guilherme ClezarClezar – Federico CoriaCoria (7-5 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrej MartinMartin – Facundo BagnisBagnis (0-1) – See H2H details
- Guilherme ClezarClezar – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (1-0) – See H2H details
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (1-0) – See H2H details
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – See H2H details
