Paolo Lorenzi powers past Noah Rubin 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in New York on Monday after playing a solid match to deal with Danilo Petrovic in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Lorenzi took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Rubin in the 1st game (1-0). The Italian managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the American in the 9th (6-3) game before conquering the set.
2nd set.
Lorenzi started the set in the best possible way after breaking Rubin in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, that wasn’t sufficient for Paolo to win the set as the American managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Lorenzi kept his cool to break Rubin in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Rubin couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Lorenzi scored 62 points vs. Noah’s 37 points.
Lorenzi served extremely well to win 77% of the points (23/30) behind his first serve, and he won 70% points (7/10) on his second serve. Lorenzi won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points because he converted only 38% (5/13). On the other side, the American wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Lorenzi and Rubin is 1-0 for Paolo.
Next Match H2H: Paolo Lorenzi vs. Danilo Petrovic – stats
Lorenzi will play Petrovic in the 1st round.
There is no head to head record between Paolo Lorenzi and Danilo Petrovic since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Go SoedaSoeda – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Bradley KlahnKlahn (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Noah RubinRubin (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ivo KarlovicKarlovic – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – See H2H details
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Steve JohnsonJohnson (1-3) – See H2H details
- Go SoedaSoeda – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-0) – See H2H details
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jason JungJung – Kevin AndersonAnderson (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marcos GironGiron – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – See H2H details
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (1-0) – See H2H details
- Brian ShiShi – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – See H2H details