Diego Sebastian Schwartzman bests Radu Albot 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday. Sebastian Schwartzman will face Richard Gasquet in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Sebastian Schwartzman conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before winning the set (6-4).
Albot lost the 7th game (4-3) when he had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.
2nd set.
Diego in this set played at a much higher level than Albot and consequentely he won 6-2 after breaking Albot in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Argentine won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Sebastian Schwartzman scored 69 points vs. Albot’s 57 points.
Diego served exceptionally well to win 84% of the points (37/44) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 29% points (5/17) on his second serve. Sebastian Schwartzman won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 27% (3/11). On the other side, Albot wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Sebastian Schwartzman and Albot is 1-0 for Diego.
Next Match: Diego Sebastian Schwartzman vs. Richard Gasquet – H2H and stats
Sebastian Schwartzman will compete against Gasquet in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Diego Sebastian Schwartzman and Richard Gasquet face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Gasquet (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Gasquet won 6-2 6-1 in the 2nd round in Carlo back in 2018.
