Federico Delbonis surprises Auger-Aliassime in the 3rd round – ROME RESULTS

INTERNAZIONALI BNL D'ITALIA - ROME DRAW AND RESULTS. Delbonis shocks Auger-Aliassime to square off with Reilly Opelka in the quarter

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Federico Delbonis vs. Felix Auger Aliassime

Federico Delbonis stuns Felix Auger Aliassime 7-6(3) 6-1 in the 3rd round in Rome on Thursday. Delbonis will try to keep the momentum against Reilly Opelka in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 51 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 1st round in 2014 and 2018. Here you can see his history at this event.

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Delbonis's Record

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

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

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Federico Delbonis
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At the end of the match, the Argentine scored 75 points vs. Felix’s 60.

Delbonis

The Argentine served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (32/42) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (15/27) on his second serve. The Argentine won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.

Auger-Aliassime

On the other side, Felix was struggling when converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Delbonis and Auger-Aliassime is 1-0 for Federico.

Draw and next match H2H: Federico Delbonis vs. Reilly Opelka – stats

Delbonis will compete against Opelka in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Federico Delbonis and Reilly Opelka since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Federico Delbonis Draw info

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Delbonis had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Opelka in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more work to do for Delbonis to win the set because the Canadian found the way to break back in the 6th (3-3) game. Federico maintained his cool before winning the set at the breaker at 3.

Tiebreak

Federico won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1) and 10th (7-3) point.

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

They contested 89 points. This set was a huge battle since finally Federico won barely 1 point more than Felix (45-44). Delbonis conceded 15 points on serve (29-15). On the losing side, Felix conceded 16 points on serve (29-16).

Delbonis was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Opelka in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Federico reinforced his lead after breaking the Canadian in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).

There was an important spell in this set when Delbonis won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the score from 0-0 to 5-0.

Delbonis converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A) and the 4th game (3-0 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Federico didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 45 points. The Argentine was the one to win the set after conquering 13 more points than the Canadian (29-16). The Argentine surrendered 6 points on serve (17-6). Regarding the other side of the net, Felix conceded 12 points on serve (10-12).

 

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