TENNIS SCORES. Djokovic topples Carreno-Busta in the 3rd round of the Western & Southern Open

Novak Djokovic gets the better of Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-3 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday. Djokovic is going to play against Lucas Pouille in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Novak conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Similarly to the 1^st set, the set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Serbian conquered in the 3^rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Novak scored 70 points vs. the Spaniard’s 54 points.

Novak served extremely well to win 82% of the points (36/44) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (9/18) on his second serve. Djokovic won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points as he converted only 33% (2/6). On the other side, the Spaniard wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Djokovic and Carreno-Busta is 3-0 for Novak.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Pablo Carreno-Busta Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati

Next Match: Novak Djokovic vs. Lucas Pouille – stats

Djokovic will compete against Pouille in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Novak Djokovic and Lucas Pouille play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Djokovic won 6-0 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal in Australian Open back in January 2019.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• David GoffinDavid – Adrian MannarinoAdrian (7-6⁶ 6-2) – See score progression
• Richard GasquetRichard – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanDiego (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – Alex De MinaurAlex (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevAndrey – Roger FedererRoger (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Lucas PouilleLucas – Karen KhachanovKaren (6-7³ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Daniil MedvedevDaniil – Jan-Lennard StruffJan-Lennard (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Roberto Bautista AgutRoberto – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicNovak – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Roberto Bautista AgutRoberto – Richard GasquetRichard (4-1) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicNovak – Lucas PouilleLucas (1-0) – See H2H details
• Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – David GoffinDavid (1-1) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevAndrey – Daniil MedvedevDaniil (0-0) – See H2H details