Paolo Lorenzi tops Michael Vrbensky 5-7 7-67 6-2 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger on Monday. Lorenzi will have to play Bernabe Zapata Miralles in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Vrbensky snatched in the 11th game (6-5) prior to finally conquering the set (7-5).
The Czech was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 11th game (5-5 30-40). On the other side, Paolo was perfect in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 85 points. The Czech won 5 points more than Lorenzi (45-40). The Czech conceded 17 points on serve (33-17). On the other side, Paolo conceded 12 points on serve (23-12).
Vrbensky enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Lorenzi in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, Paolo refused to bow to come back to break the Czech in the 6th (3-3) and in the 12th (6-6) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 7.
Tiebreak
Paolo won 4 minibreaks in the 6th (3-3), 11th (6-5), 15th (8-7) and 16th (9-7) point. On the other side, the Czech won 2 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1) and 12th (6-6) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-3, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 9-c
Paolo converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 40-A), the 10th (5-4 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (5-6 30-40). Also, on the other side, Vrbensky converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 87 points. The Italian conquered the set after winning 5 more points than Michael (46-41). The Italian lost 13 points on serve (24-13). on the other side of the court, Michael conceded 22 points on serve (28-22).
Lorenzi had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Vrbensky in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more to do for Lorenzi to win the set as the Czech succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Paolo kept his cool to break Michael in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
An important stage of this set was when Paolo won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set so as to convert the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
The Italian converted 60% of his break points (3/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 5th game (3-1 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Michael converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 2nd game (0-1 0-40 and 15-40).
They contested 39 points. Paolo conquered the set after winning 11 more points than Vrbensky (25-14). Lorenzi surrendered 5 points on serve (13-5). On the other side, the Czech conceded 12 points on serve (9-12).
The Italian will add to his prize money $ 340 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 860 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Italian 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, Lorenzi scored 111 points vs. Vrbensky’s 100.
The Italian won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points since he converted only 38% (5/13) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Michael didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that he conquered points (4/6). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Lorenzi and Vrbensky is 1-0 for Paolo.
Draw and next match H2H: Paolo Lorenzi vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles – stats
Lorenzi will square off with Zapata Miralles in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Paolo Lorenzi and Bernabe Zapata Miralles since this will be the first time that they will play 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
- 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
- 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
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
