Federico Delbonis victorious over Pablo Cuevas 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Bastad on Thursday. Delbonis will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Joao Sousa in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Cuevas had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Delbonis in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, the Argentine succeeded in coming back to break Cuevas 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set (6-4).
Pablo was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-4 to 6-4).
2nd set.
Delbonis was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Cuevas in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, there was more to do for Delbonis to win the set because Pablo succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) game.
At the end of the match, the Argentine scored 68 points vs. the Uruguayan’s 58 points.
Federico was effective when converting 56% of the break points that he procured (5/9). On the other side, Cuevas was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points because he converted only 43% of his break points (3/7). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this encounter, the head to head between Delbonis and Cuevas is 2-2.
Next Match: Federico Delbonis vs. Joao Sousa – H2H and stats
Delbonis will fight against Sousa in the quarter.
This will be the 6th time that Federico Delbonis and Joao Sousa clash against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Sousa (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sousa won 6-3 6-1 in the quarter in Sao Paulo back in 2017.
