Matteo Arnaldi ousts Sebastian Baez 5-7 7-6(8) 6-2 in the 2nd round in Barcelona on Tuesday. Arnaldi will play against Nicolas Jarry or Marco Trungelliti in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
The Italian added to his prize money € 16,825 after winning this match. He has already won € 37,175 after this win. If he wins the next match, Matteo will add € 33,375 to his earnings to get in total € 70,550 in total.
Highlights Matteo Arnaldi vs. Sebastian Baez Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell – Barcelona
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 114 points vs. Baez’s 106.
Arnaldi
Matteo fired 11 aces and he committed 9 double faults. Arnaldi won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points after he converted only 38% (6/16) of the procured opportunities.
Baez
On the other side, the Argentine didn’t lose the concentration in converting 83% of the break points that he conquered points (5/6). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Arnaldi and Baez is 1-0 for Matteo.
Draw and next match H2H: Matteo Arnaldi vs. Nicolas Jarry or Marco Trungelliti – stats
Arnaldi will play either Nicolas Jarry or Marco Trungelliti in the 3rd round. The head to head is 0-2 vs. Nicolas Jarry and 1-0 vs. Marco Trungelliti.
Live score progression and stats
Sebastian won the set after he broke the Italian in the 7th (4-3) and in the 11th (6-5) game. The Italian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Yet, the Argentine didn’t make any concession anymore to win the set 7-5.
The Argentine was perfect in converting all his break points in the 6th (3-3 30-40 and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40). On the other side, Arnaldi was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (4-5 30-40).
They played 77 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Baez won just 3 more points than Arnaldi (40-37). Sebastian surrendered 13 points on serve (23-13). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 17 points on serve (24-17).
Arnaldi conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Sebastian Baez in the 2nd game (2-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Matteo to win the set because Baez found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Arnaldi maintained his cool to break Baez in the 4th
(3-1) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set (7-6).Yet also Baez won 4 consecutive games from 1-4 to 5-4
The Italian converted 21% of his break points (3/14). He had 14 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 4th (2-1 15-40), the 6th (4-1 30-40 and 40-A), the 10th (4-5 30-40, 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 12th (6-5 30-40) and the 14th game (7-5 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Sebastian was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 3rd (0-2 0-40), the 7th (2-4 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40).
They played 110 points. It’s worth to point out that, Arnaldi won this set even if he scored less points 2 than the Argentine (54-56). Arnaldi lost 16 points on serve (12-16). On the other side, Baez conceded 42 points on serve (40-42).
Arnaldi had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Sebastian Baez in the 2nd game (2-0). That break was sufficient for the Italian to win the set (6-2) since there were no other breaks.
Matteo was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (3-1 30-40). On the other side, Arnaldi didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 33 points. Arnaldi conquered the set after winning 11 more points than Sebastian (22-11). Matteo was just too strong on serve to concede only 1 point during his serving games (16-1). on the other side of the court, Sebastian conceded 6 points on serve (10-6).
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