Pedro Sousa tops Carlos Taberner 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in Meerbusch Challenger on Saturday. Sousa will seek to keep on going in this event against Pedja Krstin in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The Spaniard won the set after he broke Sousa 3 times in the 5th (3-2), in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (5-4) game. Pedro tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (4-4) game. Nonetheless, the Spaniard didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 6-4.
2nd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Pedro conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Sousa took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Taberner in the 1st game (1-0). However, there was more to do for Pedro to win the set as Carlos succeeded in breaking back in the 8th (3-5) game.
Sousa failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Portuguese scored 91 points vs. Taberner’s 87 points.
Sousa was well focused in converting 71% of the break points that he procured (5/7). On the other side, Carlos was not so effective in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (4/12). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Sousa and Taberner is 4-2.
Next Match: Pedro Sousa vs. Pedja Krstin – stats
Sousa will square off with Krstin in the final.
There is no head to head record between Pedro Sousa and Pedja Krstin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sousa won 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Alphen Challenger back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Meerbusch Challenger
- Pedja KrstinPedja – Jan ChoinskiJan (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Pedro SousaPedro – Carlos TabernerCarlos (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Pedro SousaPedro – Pedja KrstinPedja (0-0) – See H2H details