Determined Lorenzo Sonego survives Thiem in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. HIGHLIGHTS – ROME RESULTS

INTERNAZIONALI BNL D'ITALIA - ROME DRAW AND RESULTS. Sonego outlasts Thiem to fight against Andrey Rublev in the quarter

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Lorenzo Sonego vs. Dominic Thiem

Lorenzo Sonego outlasts Dominic Thiem 6-4 6-7(5) 7-6(5) in the 3rd round in Rome on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Sonego will play against Andrey Rublev in the quarter. The epic lasted 3 hours and 24 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2018 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.

Sonego
Rome
Sonego's Record

Sonego added to his prize money € 16,900 after conquering this match. He has won already € 45,100 after this win. If he wins the next match, Lorenzo will add € 37,200 to his earnings to get in total € 82,300 in total.

Highlights Lorenzo Sonego vs. Dominic Thiem Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Sonego
Thiem
Lorenzo Sonego
6-4 6-75 7-65
3h:24
Dominic Thiem
129
129
Total points
123
123
58
58
Winners
60
60
45%
45%
Ratio Winners
49%
49%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
8
8
0
0
Double Faults
3
3
71%
71%
1st in
65%
65%
68%
68%
1st won
70%
70%
58/85
58/85
1st won
60/86
60/86
60%
60%
2nd won
48%
48%
21/35
21/35
2nd won
22/46
22/46
-- Break Points --
3/14
3/14
Total
2/9
2/9
21%
21%
Won
22%
22%
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At the end of the match, Sonego scored 129 points vs. Thiem’s 123.

Sonego

Lorenzo won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 21% (3/14) of the procured opportunities.

Thiem

On the other side, Thiem was not so effective in converting his break points (only 22% – 2/9). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Sonego and Thiem is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Lorenzo Sonego vs. Andrey Rublev – stats

Sonego will square off with Rublev in the quarter.

This will be the 3rd time that Lorenzo Sonego and Andrey Rublev face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Rublev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Rublev won 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in Cortina Challenger back in 2016.

Lorenzo Sonego Draw info

Live score progression and stats

There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Lorenzo snatched in the 7th game (4-3) before finally winning the set (6-4).

They contested 63 points. The Italian won 7 points more than Dominic (35-28). Sonego lost 7 points on serve (22-7). On the other side, Thiem conceded 13 points on serve (21-13).

Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Finally, the Austrian won the tiebreak at 7-5.

Tiebreak

The Austrian won 5 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Lorenzo won a minibreak in the 8th (4-4) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5

Dominic was unable to convert any of the 5 conquered break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Sonego was unable to convert any of his 4 break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 9th (4-4 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40 and 40-A).

They contested 104 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Thiem won just 2 more points than the Italian (53-51). The Austrian dropped 18 points on serve (33-18). on the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 20 points on serve (33-20).

Sonego didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Rublev in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Lorenzo to win the set since the Austrian managed to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 5th (3-2) game. The Italian maintained his cool before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

However also Dominic won 4 consecutive games from 0-2 to 4-2

Tiebreak

Lorenzo won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0) and 7th (4-3) point. On the other side, Thiem won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 9th (4-5) and 11th (6-5) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5

 

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