Andrey Rublev gets by Marton Fucsovics 7-6(4) 6-4 in the final in Rotterdam on Sunday. The match lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes. This is the first time that the Russian conquered this tournament. His best achievement in this event so far was reaching the quarter.
Andrey added € 23,265 to his prize money after conquering this final. He has earned € 89,265 in total after winning this tournament.
Rublev was delighted about the match. He commented:
“I feel happy. It has been a really great week. It has been a great past year and a half. We will see if I can keep going if I can keep this level of competing being a Top 10.”
Highlights Andrey Rublev vs. Marton Fucsovics ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Rotterdam
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Rublev scored 87 points vs. Marton’s 75.
Rublev
Rublev served pretty well to win 75% of the points (41/55) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (12/19) on his second serve. Rublev won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 17% (1/6) of the procured opportunities.
Fucsovics
On the other side, the Hungarian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Rublev and Fucsovics is 2-2.
This was the 8th career title for the Russian. (see list of the title). Marton remains with 1 title after he conquered the tournament in Geneva 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Rublev won the breaker at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Rublev won 3 minibreaks in the 3rd (2-1), 7th (4-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Marton won a minibreak in the 5th (2-3) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Rublev was unable to convert any of the 3 conquered break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A). Also, on the other side, Fucsovics was unable to convert any of his 4 break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 93 points. Rublev was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than Fucsovics (49-44). The Russian surrendered 12 points on serve (31-12). Regarding the other side of the net, Fucsovics conceded 18 points on serve (32-18).
Rublev was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break in the 1st game (1-0). Rublev to win the set (6-4) as there were no other breaks.
Rublev converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Rublev didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 68 points. The Russian won 4 points more than Fucsovics (36-32). Rublev surrendered 9 points on serve (22-9). On the other side, the Hungarian conceded 14 points on serve (23-14).