Bernabe Zapata Miralles tops Nuno Borges 7-5 6-1 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger on Monday. Zapata Miralles will have to play Paolo Lorenzi in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
Bernabe won the set after he broke Borges in the 4th (3-1) and in the 12th (7-5) game. Nuno tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. However, Bernabe didn’t make any concession anymore to conquer the set 7-5.
Zapata Miralles converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 4th (2-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, Nuno was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (1-3 40-A).
They played 76 points. Bernabe conquered the set after winning 4 points more than Borges (40-36). Bernabe dropped 15 points on serve (25-15). on the other side of the net, the Portuguese conceded 15 points on serve (21-15).
Bernabe won the set after he broke the Portuguese in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game.
Nuno was dominated in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-1 to 6-1.
Zapata Miralles converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 30-40). On the other side, Bernabe didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 35 points. Zapata Miralles was the one to win the set after conquering 15 points more than Nuno (25-10). Bernabe was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). On the losing side, Borges conceded 9 points on serve (7-9).
Zapata Miralles 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
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At the end of the match, Bernabe scored 65 points vs. the Portuguese’s 47.
Zapata Miralles served extremely well to win 75% of the points (30/40) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (11/19) on his second serve. Bernabe won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points after he converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Nuno was great in converting the only break point that he converted. Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Zapata Miralles and Borges is 1-0 for Bernabe.
Draw and next match H2H: Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Paolo Lorenzi – stats
Zapata Miralles will play Lorenzi in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Bernabe Zapata Miralles and Paolo Lorenzi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Maia Challenger
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- Pedro SousaSousa – Maxime HamouHamou (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Julian LenzLenz (6-1 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (2-6 7-5 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (5-7 7-67 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Daniel MasurMasur (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-5 3-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Gastao EliasElias – Pedro SousaSousa (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Quentin HalysHalys – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H details and stats
