PUNE RESULTS. Astonishing Marcora exterminates Rosol in the 1st round

Roberto Marcora obliterates Lukas Rosol 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Pune on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to clash against Benoit Paire in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that the Italian conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Marcora had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Rosol in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Roberto improved his lead after breaking Rosol in the 3^rd (3-0) game before winning the set (6-2).

An important stage of this contest was when Marcora won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Italian scored 53 points vs. the Czech’s 37 points.

Marcora served very well to win 85% of the points (23/27) behind his first serve, and he won 71% points (15/21) on his second serve. The Italian was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (3/6). On the other side, Rosol wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Marcora and Rosol is 1-0 for Roberto.

Next Match H2H: Roberto Marcora vs. Benoit Paire – stats

Marcora will face Paire in the 2^nd round.

There is no head to head record between Roberto Marcora and Benoit Paire since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

The last time that they played, Paire won 6-2 3-2 ret. in the 2^nd round in Quimper Challenger back in 2015.

Tennis Scores in Pune

• James DuckworthDuckworth – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Lukas RosolRosol (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Antoine HoangHoang (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Yannick MadenMaden (7-6⁴ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Jiri VeselyVesely – Arjun KadheKadhe (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (3-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Viktor TroickiTroicki – Sumit NagalNagal (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Viktor TroickiTroicki (0-0) – See H2H details
• Benoit PairePaire – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (0-0) – See H2H details
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – See H2H details
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – See H2H details
• Taro DanielDaniel – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – See H2H details
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (1-0) – See H2H details
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (1-0) – See H2H details