Francisco Cerundolo survives Lorenzo Sonego 6-4 2-6 7-6(2) in the quarter in Umag on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Cerundolo will try to keep the momentum against Andrey Rublev in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 33 minutes.
Cerundolo added to his prize money € 12,710 after winning this match. He has already won € 30,220 till now in this event. If he wins the next match, Francisco will add € 21,180 to his earnings to get in total € 51,400.
Highlights Francisco Cerundolo vs. Lorenzo Sonego Plava Laguna Croatia Open – Umag
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Francisco won this match even if he won less points than Lorenzo (91 vs. 92).
Cerundolo
The Argentine was absolutely great in converting the only break point that he conquered.
Sonego
On the other side, Sonego was struggling when converting his break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Cerundolo and Sonego is 2-1 for Francisco.
Draw and next match H2H: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Cerundolo will play Rublev in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Andrey Rublev square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Cerundolo and Rublev (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 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 Francisco conquered in the 10th game (6-4) just before ultimately conquering the set (6-4).
Francisco failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 0.
Francisco was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 10th game (5-4 40-A). On the other side, the Italian was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 76 points. Francisco conquered the set after winning 4 more points than Lorenzo (40-36). The Argentine lost 14 points on serve (29-14). In addition, on the other side, Sonego conceded 11 points on serve (22-11
).Sonego in this set was too good for the Argentine and without many problems he won 6-2 after breaking the Argentine in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Cerundolo was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-2 to 6-2.
Sonego was on the money in converting all his break points in the 2nd
(1-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 30-40). On the other side, the Italian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.They played 44 points. Sonego was the winner of the set after clinching 8 points more than the Argentine (26-18). Lorenzo dropped 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, Cerundolo conceded 10 points on serve (13-10).
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. the Argentine had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
Francisco won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 3rd (2-1), 6th (5-1) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, Lorenzo won a minibreak in the 1st (1-0) point.
Francisco won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 5-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Moreover, on the other side, Francisco didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 63 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Cerundolo won just 3 more points than Lorenzo (33-30). The Argentine conceded 5 points on serve (24-5). on the other side of the net, Sonego conceded 9 points on serve (25-9).
Tennis Scores in Umag
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dusan LajovicLajovic (5-7 6-3 6-0)
- Jakub MensikMensik – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-0 6-4)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (5-7 6-3 6-2)
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 2-6 7-62)
Upcoming matches
- Andrey RublevRublev – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-1) – H2H details and stats