Richard Gasquet tops Alessandro Giannessi 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Umag on Wednesday. Gasquet will engage against Damir Dzumhur in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 51 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2013. Here you can see his history at this event.
Gasquet added to his prize money € 5,000 after winning this match. He has won already € 14,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, the French player will add € 7,000 to his earnings to get in total € 21,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the French player scored 75 points vs. Giannessi’s 63.
Gasquet
Gasquet served exceptionally well to win 86% of the points (31/36) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (18/26) on his second serve. Richard won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points as he converted only 33% (1/3) of the procured opportunities.
Giannessi
On the other side, Giannessi wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Richard was just to good and the Italian had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Gasquet and Giannessi is 1-0 for Richard.
Draw and next match H2H: Richard Gasquet vs. Damir Dzumhur – stats
Gasquet will face Dzumhur in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Richard Gasquet and Damir Dzumhur clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gasquet (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Gasquet won 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in Montpellier back in 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. Finally, the French player won the tiebreak at 7-4.
Tiebreak
The French player won 3 minibreaks in the 6th (4-2), 7th (5-2) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Italian won a minibreak in the 8th (3-5) point.
The French player won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Also, on the other side, Richard didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 71 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Richard won just 3 more points than Giannessi (37-34). Richard conceded 5 points on serve (28-5). On the losing side, Alessandro conceded 9 points on serve (29-9).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that the French player snatched in the 3rd game (2-1) before eventually winning the set (6-4).
Gasquet converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 5th game (3-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Gasquet didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 67 points. Richard won 7 points more than the Italian (37-30). The French player surrendered 8 points on serve (21-8). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 16 points on serve (22-16).
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