Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez stuns Aleksandar Vukic 7-5 4-6 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Acapulco on Tuesday. Pacheco Mendez will face off with Casper Ruud in the 2nd round. The epic lasted 3 hours and 1 minute. This will be his best result in this competition. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2023 and 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
Rodrigo added to his prize money $ 17,645 after winning this match. He has already won $ 37,810 after this win. If he wins the next match, Pacheco Mendez will add $ 33,020 to his earnings to get in total $ 70,830 in total.
Highlights Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez vs. Aleksandar Vukic Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Acapulco
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
3h:01
At the end of the match, Pacheco Mendez scored 122 points vs. Vukic’s 108.
Pacheco Mendez
Rodrigo served pretty well to win 77% of the points (55/71) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (18/31) on his second serve. The Mexican blasted 12 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Pacheco Mendez won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 17% (2/12) of the procured opportunities.
Vukic
On the other side, Vukic was struggling when converting his break points (only 25% – 2/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Pacheco Mendez and Vukic is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez vs. Casper Ruud – stats
Pacheco Mendez will compete against Ruud in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez and Casper Ruud since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Mexican snatched in the 11th game (6-5) just before finally conquering the set (7-5).
Aleksandar was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 4-5 to 7-5.
Rodrigo converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 4th (2-2 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Vukic was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 10th game (5-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They played 84 points. Pacheco Mendez conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Vukic (47-37). Rodrigo surrendered 6 points on serve (26-6). In addition, on the other side, Aleksandar conceded 21 points on serve (31-21).
The Australian won the set after he broke the Mexican in the 4th (3-1) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Pacheco Mendez tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. Nevertheless, Aleksandar kept the focus to conquer the set 6-4.
Aleksandar failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 40.
The Australian was unerring in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 15-40), the 8th (5-2 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). Also, on the other side, the Mexican was spot on in converting all his break points in the 7th (2-4 30-40), the 9th (3-5 30-40) and the 11th game (3-6 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 74 points. Vukic won 6 points more than Rodrigo (40-34). Aleksandar conceded 16 points on serve (24-16). Regarding the other side of the net, the Mexican conceded 16 points on serve (18-16).
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Rodrigo won the tiebreak at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Rodrigo won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 9th (5-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the Australian won a minibreak in the 2nd (2-0) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Pacheco Mendez was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (4-4 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Pacheco Mendez didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 72 points. Rodrigo was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than the Australian (41-31). The Mexican surrendered 7 points on serve (29-7). On the other side, the Australian conceded 12 points on serve (24-12).
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- Learner TienTien – Cameron NorrieNorrie (7-65 6-3)
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