TENNIS SCORES. Pablo Carreno-Busta beats Sonego in the 3rd round in Salem Open

Pablo Carreno-Busta overcomes Lorenzo Sonego 7-6⁷ 6-0 in the 3^rd round in Salem Open on Wednesday. Carreno-Busta will engage against Benoit Paire in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Sonego didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Carreno-Busta in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, Carreno-Busta managed to stage a good comeback to break the Italian in the 7^th (3-4) game before winning the set at the breaker at 7.

2^nd set.

The Italian was overpowered in this set and the Spaniard won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Spaniard scored 71 points vs. the Italian’s 54 points.

Carreno-Busta was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (4/8). On the other side, Sonego wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Carreno-Busta and Sonego is 1-1.

Next Match: Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Benoit Paire – stats

Carreno-Busta will take on Paire in the quarter.

This will be the 11^th time that Pablo Carreno-Busta and Benoit Paire fight against each other. The head to head is 7-3 for Paire (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Paire won 6-2 4-6 7-6¹ ret. in the 3^rd round in Paris back in May 2019.

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

• Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo – Lorenzo SonegoLorenzo (7-6⁷ 6-0) – See score progression
• Steve JohnsonSteve – Casper RuudCasper (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHubert – Feliciano LopezFeliciano (6-3 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovDenis – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• John MillmanJohn – Robin HaaseRobin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Benoit PaireBenoit – Ugo HumbertUgo (3-6 7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeFrances – Filip KrajinovicFilip (6-2 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Sam QuerreySam – Andrey RublevAndrey (1-0) – See H2H details
• John MillmanJohn – Steve JohnsonSteve (1-3) – See H2H details
• Benoit PaireBenoit – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (7-3) – See H2H details
• Frances TiafoeFrances – Hubert HurkaczHubert (2-0) – See H2H details