Marin Cilic topples Fabio Fognini 6-3 7-6(4) in the 2nd round in London on Wednesday. Cilic will face Alex De Minaur in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes. Cilic won this tournament twice in 2012 and 2018. Here you can see his history at this event.
Marin added to his prize money € 15,285 after conquering this match. He has won already € 40,765 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Croatian will add € 19,095 to his earnings to get in total € 59,860 in total.
Highlights Marin Cilic vs. Fabio Fognini cinch Championships – London
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Cilic scored 72 points vs. the Italian’s 58.
Cilic
Marin served very well to win 82% of the points (37/45) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (11/22) on his second serve. Marin blasted 17 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Cilic was great in converting all the break points (2/2).
Fognini
On the other side, Fognini was struggling when converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Cilic and Fognini is 4-1 for Marin.
Draw and next match H2H: Marin Cilic vs. Alex De Minaur – stats
Cilic will come up against De Minaur in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Marin Cilic and Alex De Minaur play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Marin conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before eventually winning the set (6-3).
They contested 55 points. Cilic conquered the set after winning 17 points more than Fognini (36-19). Cilic conceded 5 points on serve (23-5). In addition, on the other side, Fognini conceded 13 points on serve (14-13).
De Minaur had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Cilic in the 2nd
game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, Cilic managed to stage a great comeback to break Fognini in the 7th (3-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.Tiebreak
Marin won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1), 9th (6-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Fabio won 2 minibreaks in the 6th (2-4) and 10th (4-6) point.
Cilic won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 4-2 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
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- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – John MillmanMillman (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
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