Fabio Fognini prevails over Pedro Martinez Portero 6-4 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Buenos Aires on Thursday. Fognini will have to play Federico Delbonis in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 4 minutes. His best achievement in this event was reaching the final in 2014. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Fabio Fognini vs. Pedro Martinez Portero Argentina Open – Buenos Aires
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:04
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 81 points vs. Martinez Portero’s 72.
Fognini
Fabio won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Martinez Portero
On the other side, Martinez Portero wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 30% – 3/10). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Fognini and Martinez Portero is 1-0 for Fabio.
Draw and next match H2H: Fabio Fognini vs. Federico Delbonis – stats
Fognini will face Delbonis in the quarter.
This will be the 10th time that Fabio Fognini and Federico Delbonis square off. The head to head is 5-4 for Fognini (see full H2H stats),but they are 4-4 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Delbonis won 6-4 7-5 3-6 7-5 in the Rubber 4 in Tokyo back in 2016.
Live score progression and stats
Delbonis had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Pedro Martinez Portero in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, the Italian managed to stage a great comeback to break Martinez Portero in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Martinez Portero was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 2-4 to 6-4.
Fabio converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 30-40), the 8th (3-4 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Martinez Portero converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had his opportunities in the 1st game (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 63 points. Fabio won 7 points more than the Spaniard (35-28). The Italian dropped 11 points on serve (21-11). on the other side of the net, Martinez Portero conceded 14 points on serve (17-14).
Delbonis had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Pedro Martinez Portero in the 1st game (1-0). However, Fognini refused to bow to come back to break the Spaniard in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 4th (3-1) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.
Tiebreak
The Italian won 4 minibreaks in the 3rd (2-1), 6th (4-2), 10th (6-4) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Martinez Portero won 2 minibreaks in the 5th (2-3) and 9th (4-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 6-5, 7-5
Fabio converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). Also, on the other side, Martinez Portero converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (1-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40).
They played 90 points. This set was so close that, Fabio won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Fabio conceded 17 points on serve (24-17). on the other side of the net, Pedro conceded 21 points on serve (28-21).
Tennis Scores in Buenos Aires
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Pablo AndujarAndujar (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (7-62 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-4 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (7-62 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Federico CoriaCoria – Dusan LajovicLajovic (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (2-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (5-4) – H2H details and stats
- Casper RuudRuud – Federico CoriaCoria (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-1) – H2H details and stats
