HIGHLIGHTS. Stefanos Tsitsipas dispatches Carreno-Busta in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships

Stefanos Tsitsipas dispatches Pablo Carreno-Busta 7-6¹ 6-1 in the 1^st round in Dubai on Tuesday. Tsitsipas will have to play Alexander Bublik in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Tsitsipas was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Carreno-Busta in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, there was more to do for Tsitsipas to win the set as the Spaniard managed to break back in the 5^th (2-3) game. Tsitsipas kept his focus before winning the set at the breaker at 1.

Tsitsipas was unable to break the Spaniard in the 4^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Tsitsipas started the set strong after breaking Carreno-Busta in the 1^st game (1-0). The Greek managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the Spaniard in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

Carreno-Busta was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Greek scored 79 points vs. Carreno-Busta’s 54 points.

Stefanos served very well to win 77% of the points (23/30) behind his first serve, and he won 68% points (17/25) on his second serve. Stefanos won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, the Spaniard was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Carreno-Busta is 2-0 for Stefanos.

Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Pablo Carreno-Busta Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Alexander Bublik – stats

Tsitsipas will fight against Bublik in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Bublik play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Tsitsipas won 7-5 6-3 in the semifinal in Marseille back in February 2020.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-6² 7-5) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Marin CilicCilic (2-6 7-5 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Alexander BublikBublik – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Dennis NovakNovak – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Richard BerankisBerankis (5-7 7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Fabio FogniniFognini (3-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Joao SousaSousa (4-6 6-3 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
• Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-4 7-5) – 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
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (7-2) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (11-2) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-1) – See H2H details
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – See H2H details
• Dennis NovakNovak – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – See H2H details
• Alexander BublikBublik – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-2) – See H2H details