Marin Cilic demolishes Matteo Arnaldi 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in Rome on Sunday after playing a marvellous match. The match lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. His most significant achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2018. Here you can see his history at this event.
Marin added to his prize money € 17,420 after conquering this match. He has won already € 39,070 after this win. If he wins the next match, Cilic will add € 33,795 to his earnings to get in total € 72,865 in total.
Highlights Marin Cilic vs. Matteo Arnaldi Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Cilic scored 62 points vs. Arnaldi’s 42.
Cilic
The Croatian served exceptionally well to win 86% of the points (24/28) behind his first serve, and he won 65% points (13/20) on his second serve. Marin won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points since he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Arnaldi
On the other side, Arnaldi wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Cilic and Arnaldi is 1-0 for Marin.
Live score progression and stats
Cilic was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Matteo Arnaldi in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. The Croatian managed to boost his lead after breaking Matteo in the 6th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).
They played 42 points. The Croatian was the winner of the set after clinching 16 more points than the Italian (29-13). Cilic was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). In addition, on the other side, Arnaldi conceded 13 points on serve (9-13).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Croatian clinched in the 9th game (5-4) prior to ultimately conquering the set (6-4).
Cilic converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40). On the other side, Matteo wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 62 points. Marin conquered the set after winning 6 points more than Arnaldi (34-28). The Croatian dropped 7 points on serve (21-7). on the other side of the court, the Italian conceded 13 points on serve (21-13).
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