Juan Pablo Ficovich stuns Quentin Halys 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Los Cabos on Wednesday. Pablo Ficovich will seek to keep on going in this event against Aleksandar Kovacevic in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 32 minutes.
Pablo Ficovich 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, Juan will add $ 19,525 to his earnings to get in total $ 46,420 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:32
At the end of the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 114 points vs. Halys’s 98.
Pablo Ficovich
Juan served exceptionally well to win 79% of the points (49/62) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 46% points (19/41) on his second serve. The Argentine won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 42% (5/12) of the procured opportunities.
Halys
On the other side, the French player was battling in converting his break points (only 38% – 3/8). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Pablo Ficovich and Halys is 1-0 for Juan.
Draw and next match H2H: Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic – stats
Pablo Ficovich will square off with Kovacevic in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Aleksandar Kovacevic play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Pablo Ficovich and Kovacevic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Pablo Ficovich won 7-66 6-1 in the 2nd round in Champaign Challenger back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
Pablo Ficovich overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Quentin Halys in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, there was more to do for the Argentine to win the set since the French player found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Pablo Ficovich kept his cool to break the French player in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).
The Argentine converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 6th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Halys converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 2nd game (0-1 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 65 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Juan won just 3 more points than the French player (34-31). Juan dropped 10 points on serve (19-10). On the losing side, Halys conceded 15 points on serve (21-15).
The French player won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 9th (4-5) game, Quentin broke back in the 10th (5-5) game to conquer the set 7-6.
Halys was spot on in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 9th game (4-5 15-40 and 30-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the Argentine was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 9th game (4-4 30-40).
They played 88 points. It’s worth to point out that, Halys won this set even if he scored less points 6 than Pablo Ficovich (41-47). Quentin surrendered 14 points on serve (20-14). On the losing side, Pablo Ficovich conceded 21 points on serve (33-21).
Pablo Ficovich didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Quentin Halys in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Nevertheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Juan to win the set as the French player succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (1-4) game.
Juan converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 4th (3-0 15-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). In addition on the other side, Halys converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had his opportunities in the 4th (0-4 30-40) and the 9th game (3-5 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 59 points. Juan won 7 more points than Quentin (33-26). The Argentine surrendered 10 points on serve (16-10). on the other side of the net, Halys conceded 17 points on serve (16-17).
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
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- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Adam WaltonWalton – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H details and stats
