
Emilio Nava surprises Bu Yunchaokete 3-6 7-5 7-6(6) in the 2nd round in Los Cabos on Wednesday. Nava will face Andrey Rublev in the quarter. The epic lasted 3 hours and 2 minutes. This will be his best result in this event. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
Emilio added to his prize money $ 11,280 after winning this match. He has already won $ 26,895 after this win. If he wins the next match, Emilio will add $ 19,525 to his earnings to get in total $ 46,420 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Emilio scored 119 points vs. Yunchaokete’s 117.
Nava
Emilio served pretty well to win 84% of the points (58/69) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 41% points (18/44) on his second serve. Nava struck 14 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Emilio won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 11% (1/9) of the procured opportunities.
Yunchaokete
On the other side, the Chinese was far from perfect in converting his break points (only 14% – 1/7). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Nava and Yunchaokete is 1-0 for Emilio.
Draw and next match H2H: Emilio Nava vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Nava will come up against Rublev in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Emilio Nava and Andrey Rublev since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Yunchaokete conquered in the 8th game (5-3) prior to ultimately winning the set (6-3).
Emilio was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-3 to 6-3.
Bu was flawless in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 8th (4-3 15-40) and the 10th game (6-2 30-40). On the other side, Emilio wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 5th game (2-2 40-A).
They played 69 points. Yunchaokete was the winner of the set after clinching 7 more points than Emilio (38-31). The Chinese dropped 9 points on serve (22-9). On the losing side, Emilio conceded 16 points on serve (22-16).
Similarly to the 1st set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the American clinched in the 12th game (7-5) prior to ultimately conquering the set (7-5).
The American failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 0.
Nava wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, the Chinese was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd game (1-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 72 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 8 more points than the Chinese (40-32). The American surrendered 8 points on serve (27-8). on the other side of the court, the Chinese conceded 13 points on serve (24-13).
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Emilio won a thrilling breaker 8-6 after a huge fight with 14 points played.
The American lost a big opportunity to break Bu in the 4th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
Emilio won 4 minibreaks in the 7th (2-5), 10th (4-6), 11th (5-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, Bu won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (4-1) and 8th (6-2) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 0-3, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 2-5, 2-6, 3-6, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
The American was unable to convert any of the 7 conquered break points. He had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 8th (4-3 40-A and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). The American saved 6 set points when he was 1-5, 2-5, 2-6, 3-6, 4-6 and 5-6 down. On the other side, the Chinese wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (1-1 30-40).
They played 95 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally Nava won just 1 point more than the Chinese (48-47). The American conceded 13 points on serve (28-13). In addition, on the other side, Bu conceded 20 points on serve (34-20).
Tennis Scores in Los Cabos
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Luis Carlos AlvarezCarlos Alvarez (7-5 6-4)
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 6-4)
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Govind NandaNanda (6-1 6-2)
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Quentin HalysHalys (6-4 6-75 6-3)
- Emilio NavaNava – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (3-6 7-5 7-66)
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-3 6-4)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez (6-3 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Andrey RublevRublev – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Adam WaltonWalton – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
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