Guilherme Clezar shocks Facundo Mena 6-73 6-4 6-4 in the 3rd round in L’Aquila Challenger on Thursday. Clezar will play Andrej Martin in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Finally, the Argentine won the tiebreak at 3.
2nd set.
Guilherme won the set after he broke Facundo in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (3-2) game. Mena tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Notwithstanding, Guilherme managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-4.
3rd set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Clezar conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Clezar scored 104 points vs. the Argentine’s 99 points.
The Brazilian was effective when converting 60% of the break points that he procured (3/5). On the other side, the Argentine was remarkable in converting all the break points (1/1). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Clezar and Mena is 1-0.
Next Match: Guilherme Clezar vs. Andrej Martin – stats
Clezar will compete against Martin in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Guilherme Clezar and Andrej Martin since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
The last time that they squared off, Clezar won 7-65 6-3 in the semifinal in Cali Challenger back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in L’Aquila Challenger
- Carlos TabernerCarlos – Marc-Andrea HueslerMarc-Andrea (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Jurgen ZoppJurgen (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Johannes HaerteisJohannes – Juan Pablo FicovichJuan (6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Pavel KotovPavel (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Guilherme ClezarGuilherme – Facundo MenaFacundo (6-73 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Thiago Seyboth WildThiago (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Peter TorebkoPeter (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniAndrea – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFrederico (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andrej MartinAndrej – Guilherme ClezarGuilherme (0-0) – See H2H details
- Andrea CollariniAndrea – Francisco CerundoloFrancisco (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Johannes HaerteisJohannes (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Carlos TabernerCarlos (0-0) – See H2H details