Inigo Cervantes victorious over Wilson Leite 6-2 6-74 6-1 in the 1st round in the Lima Challenger on Monday. Cervantes will clash against Daniel Elahi Galan in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
Cervantes had a strong start of this set after breaking Leite in the 1st game (1-0). Inigo improved his lead after breaking the Brazilian in the 7th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Inigo converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 3rd (2-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Wilson wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2nd game (0-1 30-40).
They played 54 points. Cervantes was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than Leite (31-23). The Spaniard dropped 11 points on serve (20-11). On the losing side, Wilson conceded 11 points on serve (12-11).
Wilson won the set after he broke the Spaniard in the 6th (4-2) game. The Spaniard tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Anyhow, Wilson didn’t blink to eventually clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 4.
The Brazilian wasted a good opportunity to break the Spaniard in the 2nd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
The Brazilian won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 6th (3-3), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Inigo won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2) and 8th (4-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Wilson converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Inigo converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 4th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 15-40).
They played 86 points. This set was so close that, Leite won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Leite conceded 17 points on serve (27-17). In addition, on the other side, Inigo conceded 16 points on serve (26-16).
Cervantes was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Leite in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Cervantes extended his lead after breaking Wilson in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
There was a pivotal moment in this set when Inigo won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to bring the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
Cervantes converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40) and the 4th game (3-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Wilson was unable to convert any of his 5 break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 5th (0-4 30-40) and the 7th game (1-5 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 58 points. Cervantes was the one to win the set after conquering 14 points more than Leite (36-22). The Spaniard conceded 13 points on serve (24-13). On the losing side, Wilson conceded 12 points on serve (9-12).
Cervantes will add to his prize money $ 340 after winning this match. He has won already $ 860 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Spaniard will add $ 600 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,460 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Inigo scored 110 points vs. Leite’s 88.
The Spaniard served extremely well to win 81% of the points (43/53) behind his first serve. However he won only 47% points (27/57) on his second serve. Inigo fired 11 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Inigo won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points since he converted only 36% (5/14) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Leite had some problems converting his break points (only 8% – 1/12). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Cervantes and Leite is 1-0 for Inigo.
Draw and next match H2H: Inigo Cervantes vs. Daniel Elahi Galan – stats
Cervantes will come up against Elahi Galan in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Inigo Cervantes and Daniel Elahi Galan fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cervantes (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cervantes won 6-3 6-4 in the quarter in Bogota Challenger back in 2016.
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