Francisco Cerundolo shocks Federico Coria 7-5 7-5 in the 2nd round in the Lima Challenger on Thursday in what was an all-Argentine contest. Cerundolo will square off with Thiago Agustin Tirante in the quarter.
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Coria conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Cerundolo in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, Francisco managed to stage a great comeback to break Federico in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Cerundolo converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A). In addition on the other side, Federico converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40) and the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They played 81 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Cerundolo won only 1 point more than Coria (41-40). Francisco surrendered 13 points on serve (22-13). Regarding the other side of the net, Federico conceded 19 points on serve (27-19).
Cerundolo was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Coria in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Francisco to win the set as Federico managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (2-2) and in the 10th (5-5) game. Cerundolo maintained his cool to break Federico in the 3rd (2-1), in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game before managing to win the set (7-5).
Francisco failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 40.
Federico surrendered the 1st game (1-0) when he was comfortably leading 40-0.
Cerundolo converted 57% of his break points (4/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A and 40-A), the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 9th (4-4 0-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). Also, on the other side, Coria converted 60% of his break points (3/5). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 0-40), the 4th (1-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (4-5 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 76 points. Cerundolo was the one to win the set after conquering 4 more points than Federico (40-36). Cerundolo lost 19 points on serve (20-19). On the other side, Coria conceded 20 points on serve (17-20).
Cerundolo will add to his prize money $ 600 after winning this match. He has won already $ 1,460 after this win. If he wins the next match, Francisco will add $ 1,050 to his earnings to get in total $ 2,510 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:56
At the end of the match, Francisco scored 81 points vs. Federico’s 76.
Francisco won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 46% (6/13) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Federico was effective at converting 57% of the break points that he procured points (4/7). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Cerundolo and Coria is 2-1 for Federico.
Draw and next match H2H: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Thiago Agustin Tirante – stats
Cerundolo will compete against Agustin Tirante in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Thiago Agustin Tirante clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Cerundolo and Agustin Tirante (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Cerundolo won 7-62 7-5 in the 1st round in M25 Hurlingham back in March 2020.
Tennis Scores in Lima Challenger
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Federico CoriaCoria (7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Jesper De JongDe Jong (6-0 3-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Inigo CervantesCervantes (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Renzo OlivoOlivo (5-7 6-0 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez (6-4 5-7 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-0) – H2H details and stats
