Fabio Fognini stuns Andy Murray 6-4 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Rome on Wednesday. Fognini will play Miomir Kecmanovic in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 54 minutes. His best result in this event was reaching the quarter in 2018. Here you can see his history at this event.
Fabio added to his prize money € 10,705 after winning this match. He has already won € 27,045 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Italian will add € 21,790 to his earnings to get in total € 48,835 in total.
Highlights Fabio Fognini vs. Andy Murray Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Fognini scored 113 points vs. Murray’s 102.
Fognini
The Italian won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points after he converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Murray
On the other side, the Brit was battling in converting his break points (only 22% – 4/18). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Fognini and Murray is 5-4 for Fabio.
Draw and next match H2H: Fabio Fognini vs. Miomir Kecmanovic – stats
Fognini will square off with Kecmanovic in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Fabio Fognini and Miomir Kecmanovic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fognini (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Italian conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before finally conquering the set (6-4).
The Italian missed the chance to break Murray in the 1st game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
The Italian converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 2nd game (1-1 40-A). On the other side, Murray was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 6th game (2-3 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 91 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Fabio won just 3 more points than Andy (47-44). Fabio lost 12 points on serve (26-12). In addition, on the other side, the Brit conceded 21 points on serve (32-21).
Fognini commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Andy Murray in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Murray to win the set since Fognini managed to break back in the 5th (1-4), in the 7th (2-5) and in the 9th (4-5) game. The Brit kept his cool to break Fognini in the 6th (5-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game.
Andy failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 15.
Murray was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 30-40), the 6th (4-1 30-40), the 8th (5-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the Italian was on the money in converting all his break points in the 5th (0-4 15-40), the 7th (1-5 30-40 and 40-A), the 9th (3-5 15-40) and the 11th game (3-6 0-40 and 15-40).
They played 82 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Brit won this set even if he scored less points 2 than Fognini (40-42). Murray dropped 20 points on serve (12-20). On the losing side, Fognini conceded 28 points on serve (22-28).
Fognini had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Andy Murray in the 2nd game (2-0). Murray improved his lead after breaking Fabio before winning the set (6-4).
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Also, on the other side, Fognini didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 44 points. Fabio was the one to win the set after conquering 6 points more than Murray (25-19). Fognini was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (20-3). On the other side, Murray conceded 5 points on serve (16-5).
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