Matteo Berrettini ousts Alex Michelsen 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 1st round in Halle on Wednesday. Berrettini will seek to keep on going in this event against Marcos Giron in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes. His best result in this competition was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Berrettini added to his prize money € 15,395 after conquering this match. He has already won € 32,990 after this win. If he wins the next match, Matteo will add € 28,810 to his earnings to get in total € 61,800 in total.
Highlights Matteo Berrettini vs. Alex Michelsen Terra Wortmann Open – Halle
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Berrettini scored 69 points vs. Alex’s 55.
Berrettini
Matteo served pretty well to win 81% of the points (34/42) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (10/19) on his second serve. Berrettini struck 13 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Matteo was pretty good at converting 75% of the break points that he procured (3/4).
Michelsen
On the other side, the American was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between Berrettini and Michelsen is 1-0 for Matteo.
Draw and next match H2H: Matteo Berrettini vs. Marcos Giron – stats
Berrettini will square off with Giron in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Matteo Berrettini and Marcos Giron face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Giron (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
Live score progression and stats
Berrettini had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Alex Michelsen in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, Berrettini managed to stage a great comeback to break Alex in the 7th (3-4) game before winning the set (7-6).
Berrettini converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 7th (2-4 30-40) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A). In addition on the other side, Alex converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 2nd
game (3-1 15-40 and 30-40).They contested 84 points. Berrettini was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Michelsen (45-39). The Italian dropped 15 points on serve (32-15). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 13 points on serve (24-13).
Matteo in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Alex and finally he won 6-2 after breaking the American in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The American was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 2-2 to 6-2.
The Italian was perfect in converting all his break points in the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 0-40). On the other side, the Italian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 40 points. The Italian was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Michelsen (23-17). Matteo conceded 7 points on serve (13-7). on the other side of the net, Alex conceded 10 points on serve (10-10).
Tennis Scores in Halle
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-65 6-2)
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-72 7-5 7-610)
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-78 6-3 6-2)
- Marcos GironGiron – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4 7-65)
- Alexander BublikBublik – Max PurcellPurcell (7-61 6-4)
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Henri SquireSquire (7-67 7-62)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Oscar OtteOtte (6-75 6-3 6-4)
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-3 6-4)
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Joao FonsecaFonseca (6-4 6-4)
- Arthur FilsFils – Tomas MachacMachac (6-4 6-4)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-66 7-65)
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Flavio CobolliCobolli (7-5 7-62)
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-68 6-73 6-4)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-5 4-6 6-1)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-64 6-4)
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-4 4-3 ret.)
Upcoming matches
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (3-4) – H2H details and stats
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H details and stats