Francisco Cerundolo victorious over Gianluca Di Nicola 5-7 7-64 6-3 in the 2nd round in L’Aquila Challenger on Tuesday. Cerundolo is going to play against Thiago Seyboth Wild in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Cerundolo had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Di Nicola in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Yet, Gianluca refused to bow to come back to break Francisco 3 times in the 8th (3-5), in the 10th (5-5) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Francisco was powerless in the last 6 games of the set (from 1-5 to 7-5).
Nevertheless also Cerundolo won 4 consecutive games from 0-0 to 4-0
2nd set.
Cerundolo won the set after he broke Gianluca in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (4-3) game. The Italian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (4-4) game. However, the Argentine managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.
3rd set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Francisco conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
Statistics
Francisco won this contest even if he won the same amount of points of Gianluca (109 vs. 109).
The Argentine won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 31% (5/16). On the other side, Gianluca was pretty focused in converting 71% of the break points that he conquered points (5/7). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Cerundolo and Di Nicola is 1-0.
Next Match: Francisco Cerundolo vs. Thiago Seyboth Wild – stats
Cerundolo will square off with Seyboth Wild in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Thiago Seyboth Wild since this will be the first time that they will play each other at pro level.
Tennis Scores in L’Aquila Challenger
- Facundo MenaFacundo – Scott GriekspoorScott (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniAndrea – Raul BrancaccioRaul (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Gianluigi QuinziGianluigi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovPavel – Andrea VavassoriAndrea (6-2 7-68) – See score progression
- Thiago Seyboth WildThiago – Thomaz BellucciThomaz (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Guilherme ClezarGuilherme – Aslan KaratsevAslan (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Johannes HaerteisJohannes – Nino SerdarusicNino (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerCarlos – Alejandro TabiloAlejandro (6-4 6-77 6-0) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerMarc-Andrea – Teimuraz GabashviliTeimuraz (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaCarlos (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichJuan – Gian Marco MoroniGian (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Peter TorebkoPeter – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraMarcelo (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Gianluca Di NicolaGianluca (5-7 7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Khumoun SultanovKhumoun (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Gonzalo EscobarGonzalo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jurgen ZoppJurgen – Sasi Kumar MukundSasi (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Peter TorebkoPeter (0-0) – See H2H details
- Facundo MenaFacundo – Guilherme ClezarGuilherme (0-0) – See H2H details
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico – Andrea CollariniAndrea (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Jurgen ZoppJurgen (0-0) – See H2H details
- Juan Pablo FicovichJuan – Johannes HaerteisJohannes (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marc-Andrea HueslerMarc-Andrea – Carlos TabernerCarlos (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pavel KotovPavel – Aleksandar VukicAleksandar (0-0) – See H2H details
- Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Thiago Seyboth WildThiago (0-0) – See H2H details
