TENNIS SCORES. Strong-willed Gasquet survives Delbonis in the 2nd round in Cincinnati

WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN - CINCINNATI. Gasquet survives Delbonis to fight against Diego Sebastian Schwartzman in the 3rd round

Prediction and head to head Richard Gasquet vs. Federico Delbonis

Richard Gasquet survives Federico Delbonis 7-5 7-61 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Gasquet will clash against Diego Sebastian Schwartzman in the 3rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Richard conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Gasquet broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

Gasquet lost a big opportunity to break Federico in the 1st game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40) in the 1st (40-0) and in the 1st (40-0) game.

Delbonis lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).

2nd set.

Gasquet had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Delbonis in the 1st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the French Player to win the set because the Argentine managed to break back in the 10th (5-5) game. Richard kept his cool before winning the set at the breaker at 1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the French Player scored 80 points vs. Delbonis’s 70 points.

Gasquet served very well to win 79% of the points (37/47) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 48% points (12/25) on his second serve. Gasquet won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 30% (3/10). On the other side, Federico was pretty good in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Gasquet and Delbonis is 1-0 for Richard.

Next Match: Richard Gasquet vs. Diego Sebastian Schwartzman – H2H and stats

Gasquet will fight against Sebastian Schwartzman in the 3rd round.

This will be the 3rd time that Richard Gasquet and Diego Sebastian Schwartzman face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Gasquet (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Gasquet won 6-2 6-1 in the 2nd round in Monte Carlo back in 2018.