
Stefanos Tsitsipas conquers Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 1st round in Dubai on Monday. Tsitsipas will fight against Karen Khachanov in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes. His best achievement in this tournament was reaching the final in 2019 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Stefanos added to his prize money $ 22,100 after winning this match. He has already won $ 47,350 after this win. If he wins the next match, Stefanos will add $ 41,350 to his earnings to get in total $ 88,700 in total.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Lorenzo Sonego Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai
Tsitsipas’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Stefanos scored 72 points vs. Sonego’s 55.
Tsitsipas
Stefanos served very well to win 81% of the points (34/42) behind his first serve, and he won 72% points (13/18) on his second serve. Tsitsipas won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points after he converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.
Sonego
On the other side, Sonego was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Sonego is 4-0 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Karen Khachanov – stats
Tsitsipas will compete against Khachanov in the 2nd round.
This will be the 10th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Karen Khachanov face off. The head to head is 8-1 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 4-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Tsitsipas won 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Shanghai back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Tsitsipas won the set after he broke Sonego in the 7th (4-3) game. Lorenzo tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. Yet, Tsitsipas didn’t lose the lead to conquer the set 7-6.
Stefanos converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-3 30-40 and 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40 and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Sonego converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 8th game (3-4 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 82 points. The Greek was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Sonego (45-37). Stefanos surrendered 11 points on serve (32-11). Regarding the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 13 points on serve (26-13).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Tsitsipas grabbed in the 8th game (5-3) before finally winning the set (6-3).
Stefanos converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 8th game (4-3 15-40). On the other side, Tsitsipas didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 45 points. Stefanos was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Lorenzo (26-19). The Greek dropped 5 points on serve (17-5). on the other side of the court, Lorenzo conceded 9 points on serve (14-9).
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-64 6-3)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Aziz DougazDougaz (6-3 6-3)
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (3-6 6-3 7-64)
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-3 7-63)
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Hady HabibHabib (6-2 6-4)
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Daniel EvansEvans (6-1 6-3)
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