Lorenzo Sonego gets by Gilles Simon 7-6(2) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Metz on Thursday. Sonego will have to play Sebastian Korda in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 8 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Lorenzo Sonego vs. Gilles Simon Moselle Open – Metz
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:08
At the end of the match, Sonego scored 80 points vs. Gilles’s 66.
Sonego
Sonego won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points as he converted only 29% (2/7) of the procured opportunities.
Simon
On the other side, The French player was great in converting the only break point that he converted. Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sonego and Simon is 2-0 for Lorenzo.
Draw and next match H2H: Lorenzo Sonego vs. Sebastian Korda – stats
Sonego will face Korda in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Lorenzo Sonego and Sebastian Korda square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Sonego (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Lorenzo had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
The Italian won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 7th (5-2) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, the French player won a minibreak in the 4th (1-3) point.
Lorenzo won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
Sonego wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (3-2 40-A). On the other side, Sonego didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 87 points. The Italian was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than Simon (47-40). Sonego conceded 9 points on serve (28-9). on the other side of the court, Simon conceded 19 points on serve (31-19).
Sonego had a racing start in this set after breaking Gilles Simon in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for Lorenzo to win the set as the French player succeeded in breaking back in the 8th (3-5) game.
The Italian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.
Sonego converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (3-1 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Gilles was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 8th game (2-5 30-40).
They contested 59 points. Lorenzo was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Gilles (33-26). Sonego conceded 8 points on serve (18-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Gilles conceded 15 points on serve (18-15).
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- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
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- Mikael YmerYmer – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Gilles SimonSimon (7-62 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 7-66) – Stats and score progression
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