Benoit Paire survives Marin Cilic 2-6 7-5 7-61 in the 1st round in Dubai on Tuesday after winning a huge battle. Paire will seek to keep on going in this event against Richard Gasquet in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Cilic had a strong start of this set after breaking Paire in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Marin improved his lead after breaking Benoit in the 8th (6-2) game before winning the set.
Paire lost the 8th game (6-2) when he was 40-0 up.
2nd set.
Paire had a favorable start in this set after breaking Cilic in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the French Player to win the set because Cilic found the way to break back in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game. The French Player kept his cool to break Cilic in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before conquering the set (7-5).
The Croatian couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).
Anyhow also Cilic won 4 consecutive games from 1-3 to 5-3
3rd set.
Cilic had a racing start in this set after breaking Paire in the 2nd game (2-0). However, Benoit succeeded in coming back to break Marin in the 3rd (1-2) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 1.
Statistics
Benoit won this match even if he conquered the same amount of points of Cilic (120 vs. 120).
Benoit won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points as he converted only 29% (4/14). On the other side, Cilic was effective in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (5/10). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Paire and Cilic is 2-5 for Marin.
Highlights Benoit Paire vs. Marin Cilic Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai
Next Match H2H: Benoit Paire vs. Richard Gasquet – stats
Paire will fight against Gasquet in the 2nd round.
This will be the 10th time that Benoit Paire and Richard Gasquet square off. The head to head is 7-2 for Gasquet (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Gasquet won 7-62 6-4 in the 1st
round in Montreal back in 2019.Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Joao SousaSousa (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Dennis NovakNovak – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yen-Hsun LuLu (3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Fabio FogniniFognini (3-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Marin CilicCilic (2-6 7-5 7-61) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-62 6-1) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (7-2) – See H2H details
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (3-0) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (11-2) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – See H2H details
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – See H2H details
- Dennis NovakNovak – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-2) – See H2H details