
Francisco Cerundolo hustles Tommy Paul 6-2 7-6(4) in the 3rd round in Miami on Sunday. Cerundolo will seek to keep on going in this event against Casper Ruud in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 31 minutes. His best achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Cerundolo added to his prize money $ 42,785 after winning this match. He has already won $ 103,225 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Argentine will add $ 85,850 to his earnings to get in total $ 189,075 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Francisco scored 68 points vs. the American’s 52.
Cerundolo
Francisco was effective at converting 63% of the break points that he procured (5/8).
Paul
On the other side, Tommy was remarkable in converting all his break points (3/3). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between Cerundolo and Paul is 5-2 for Francisco.
Draw and next match H2H: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Casper Ruud – stats
Cerundolo will play Ruud in the 4th round.
This will be the 8th time that Francisco Cerundolo and Casper Ruud face off. The head to head is 4-3 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), but Ruud has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Cerundolo in this set didn’t concede much to Paul and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking Tommy in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Paul had no answers in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-2 to 6-2.
The Argentine converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (4-2 0-40) and the 9th game (6-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Cerundolo didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. The Argentine conquered the set after winning 14 points more than Tommy (31-17). Cerundolo was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (17-3). Regarding the other side of the net, Tommy conceded 14 points on serve (14-14).
Francisco won the set after he broke Paul in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game. Paul tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (4-4) game. Notwithstanding, Francisco didn’t blink to finally clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 4.
However also the American won 4 consecutive games from 1-4 to 5-4
Tiebreak
Cerundolo won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the American won a minibreak in the 7th (2-5) point.
The Argentine won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
Cerundolo was spot on in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 15-40) and the 5th game (3-1 0-40). In addition on the other side, Tommy was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 6th (1-4 15-40) and the 8th game (3-4 40-A).
They contested 72 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Francisco won just 2 points more than Tommy (37-35). Cerundolo conceded 18 points on serve (21-18). on the other side of the net, Paul conceded 16 points on serve (17-16).
Tennis Scores in Miami
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Tommy PaulPaul (6-2 7-64)
- Casper RuudRuud – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-4 7-64)
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- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (4-6 6-2 6-3)
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (7-64 6-3)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – David GoffinGoffin (6-3 6-75 6-3)
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