Luca Nardi upsets Novak Djokovic 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells on Monday. Nardi will have to play Tommy Paul in the 4th round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Nardi added to his prize money $ 41,900 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 101,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Italian will add $ 84,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 185,000 in total.
Highlights Luca Nardi vs. Novak Djokovic BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
The Italian won this match even if he conquered less points than Novak (92 vs. 93).
Nardi
Luca won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 27% (3/11) of the procured opportunities.
Djokovic
On the other side, the Serbian was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Nardi and Djokovic is 1-0 for Luca.
Draw and next match H2H: Luca Nardi vs. Tommy Paul – stats
Nardi will take on Paul in the 4th round.
This will be the 13th time that Luca Nardi and Tommy Paul square off. The head to head is 12-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), 12-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Nardi won in the 4th round in Indian wells back in January 1970.
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 snatched in the 5th game (3-2) just before finally winning the set (6-4).
Luca was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 4th game (2-2 40-A). On the other side, Nardi didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 68 points. This set was so close that, Luca won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The Italian lost 11 points on serve (22-11). In addition, on the other side, Djokovic conceded 12 points on serve (23-12).
Nardi had a great start in this set after breaking Novak Djokovic in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, there was more work to do for Novak to win the set since Nardi succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. The Serbian kept his cool to break Nardi in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
Nardi lost the 2nd game (2-0) when he had a strong 40-0 lead while on serve.
Djokovic was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 5th (3-2 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40 and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, the Italian was spot on in converting all his break points in the 3rd game (0-2 40-A, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 65 points. The Serbian won 7 points more than Nardi (36-29). Novak dropped 10 points on serve (19-10). on the other side of the net, Luca conceded 17 points on serve (19-17).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that the Italian conquered in the 6th game (4-2) just before finally winning the set (6-3).
The Italian converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 5th game (3-2 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, the Italian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 52 points. Luca was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than Novak (29-23). Luca conceded 5 points on serve (16-5). On the losing side, the Serbian conceded 13 points on serve (18-13).
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