Matteo Arnaldi outpaces Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-1 6-3 in the 2nd round in Dallas on Thursday after playing an extraordinary match to clash against Jaume Antoni Munar Clar in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 7 minutes.
The Italian added to his prize money $ 35,250 after winning this match. He has already won $ 75,615 after this win. If he wins the next match, Arnaldi will add $ 72,390 to his earnings to get in total $ 148,005 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Italian scored 59 points vs. Davidovich Fokina’s 40.
Arnaldi
Arnaldi served extremely well to win 81% of the points (25/31) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (10/19) on his second serve. Matteo won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 40% (4/10) of the procured opportunities.
Davidovich Fokina
On the other side, Davidovich Fokina wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Arnaldi and Davidovich Fokina is 2-0 for Matteo.
Draw and next match H2H: Matteo Arnaldi vs. Jaume Antoni Munar Clar – stats
Arnaldi will square off with Antoni Munar Clar in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Matteo Arnaldi and Jaume Antoni Munar Clar face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Arnaldi and Antoni Munar Clar (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Arnaldi conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Matteo improved his lead after breaking the Spaniard in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
There was a pivotal moment in this set when Matteo won 5 consecutive games in the 1st
set to convert the score from 0-0 to 5-0.Matteo converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 3rd game (3-0 30-40). On the other side, Davidovich Fokina was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th (0-4 30-40) and the 7th game (1-5 30-40).
They played 56 points. Arnaldi won 6 points more than the Spaniard (31-25). The Italian lost 11 points on serve (19-11). On the losing side, Alejandro conceded 12 points on serve (14-12).
The Italian won the set after he broke Davidovich Fokina in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Davidovich Fokina was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-3 to 6-3.
They played 43 points. Matteo was the winner of the set after clinching 15 points more than Alejandro (29-14). The Italian was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). On the other side, Davidovich Fokina conceded 13 points on serve (10-13).
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