Francisco Cerundolo ousts Engel in the 2nd round to play vs Shevchenko at the Almaty Open. HIGHLIGHTS – ALMATY RESULTS

Francisco Cerundolo defeats Justin Engel 6-4 7-6(3) in the 2^nd round in Almaty on Wednesday. Cerundolo will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Alexander Shevchenko in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this competition. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the 1^st round in 2022. Here you can see his previous results at this event.

Almaty

Cerundolo's Record

The Argentine added to his prize money $ 13,140 after winning this match. He has already won $ 31,335 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Argentine will add $ 22,740 to his earnings to get in total $ 54,075 in total.

Highlights Francisco Cerundolo vs. Justin Engel Almaty Open – Almaty

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Cerundolo

Engel

6-4 7-6³
1h:29

72

72

Total points

63

63

29

29

Winners

33

33

40%

40%

Ratio Winners

52%

52%

-- Serve --

6

6

Aces

4

4

2

2

Double Faults

1

1

58%

58%

1st in

63%

63%

81%

81%

1st won

72%

72%

29/36

29/36

1st won

33/46

33/46

65%

65%

2nd won

52%

52%

17/26

17/26

2nd won

14/27

14/27

-- Break Points --

2/4

2/4

Total

1/1

1/1

50%

50%

Won

100%

100%

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At the end of the match, Cerundolo scored 72 points vs. Engel’s 63.

Cerundolo

Francisco served very well to win 81% of the points (29/36) behind his first serve, and he won 65% points (17/26) on his second serve. Cerundolo was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (2/4).

Engel

On the other side, Justin was absolutely great in converting the only break point that he converted. Yet, that was not enough to win the match.

After this encounter, the head to head between Cerundolo and Engel is 1-0 for Francisco.

Draw and next match H2H: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Alexander Shevchenko – stats

Cerundolo will compete against Shevchenko in the quarter.

This will be the 3^rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Alexander Shevchenko fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Cerundolo and Shevchenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Shevchenko won 7-6⁷ 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Shanghai back in October 2024.

Tennis Scores in Almaty

• Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-2 6-4)
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-1 6-7⁵ 7-5)
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Justin EngelEngel (6-4 7-6³)
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – Borna CoricCoric (7-6¹ 6-4)

Upcoming matches

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• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H details and stats
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-1) – H2H details and stats
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H details and stats