Pablo Carreno-Busta shocks Aleksandar Vukic 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the 3rd round in Salem Open on Wednesday. Carreno-Busta will engage against Learner Tien in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 56 minutes. Carreno-Busta won this tournament once in 2016. Here you can see his history at this event.
Carreno-Busta added to his prize money $ 8,735 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 20,375 after this win. If he wins the next match, Carreno-Busta will add $ 14,905 to his earnings to get in total $ 35,280 in total.
Highlights Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Aleksandar Vukic Winston-Salem Open – Winston-Salem
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Carreno-Busta scored 94 points vs. the Australian’s 73.
Carreno-Busta
Carreno-Busta served pretty well to win 75% of the points (42/56) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (13/24) on his second serve. Carreno-Busta was effective when converting 63% of the break points that he procured (5/8).
Vukic
On the other side, Vukic wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 43% – 3/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Carreno-Busta and Vukic is 1-0 for Pablo.
Draw and next match H2H: Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Learner Tien – stats
Carreno-Busta will face Tien in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Pablo Carreno-Busta and Learner Tien since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Carreno-Busta started the set in the best possible way after breaking Aleksandar Vukic in the 1st game (1-0). Pablo extended his lead after breaking Aleksandar in the 9th (6-3) game before winning the set.
Pablo failed to serve out the set when leading 6-3 to be broken at 15.
Pablo converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 3rd (2-0 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 30-40). On the other side, the Spaniard didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 54 points. Carreno-Busta won 14 points more than Vukic (34-20). Carreno-Busta was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (20-3). Regarding the other side of the net, Vukic conceded 14 points on serve (17-14).
Carreno-Busta got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Aleksandar Vukic in the 2nd game (2-0). However, Aleksandar refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Pablo 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).
Aleksandar was perfect in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Carreno-Busta was flawless in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 8th (3-4 40-A) and the 10th game (4-5 30-40).
They played 76 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Australian won just 2 more points than Carreno-Busta (39-37). Aleksandar conceded 18 points on serve (19-18). On the other side, the Spaniard conceded 20 points on serve (19-20).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Carreno-Busta grabbed in the 6th game (4-2) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-3).
Pablo was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 0-40). On the other side, the Spaniard didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 37 points. Carreno-Busta was the winner of the set after clinching 9 points more than the Australian (23-14). Pablo was extremely solid on serve to drop just 2 points (16-2). On the losing side, Vukic conceded 7 points on serve (12-7).
Tennis Scores in Salem Open
- Learner TienTien – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-4 6-3)
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-3 1-6 7-68)
- David GoffinGoffin – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-3 6-3)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Borna CoricCoric (3-6 6-3 7-5)
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 4-6 6-3)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Zizou BergsBergs (6-1 6-2)
- Pavel KotovKotov – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (3-6 6-3 6-4)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Juncheng ShangShang (w/o)
Upcoming matches
- Pavel KotovKotov – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H details and stats