TENNIS SCORES. Paire hustles Carreno-Busta in the quarter of the Winston

Benoit Paire tops Pablo Carreno-Busta 7-6(5) 1-6 6-3 in the quarter in Salem Open on Friday. Paire will fight against Steve Johnson in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Carreno-Busta conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Paire in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Paire was not done to come back to break the Spaniard 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 5.

2^nd set.

The Spaniard was too good to concede just 1 game before breaking Paire 2 times and win the set 6-1.

Benoit was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Paire was pretty sharp 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. That break was the key and it was sufficient for Paire to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Paire and Carreno-Busta is 8-3 for Benoit.

Next Match: Benoit Paire vs. Steve Johnson – stats

Paire will face Johnson in the semifinal.

This will be the 4^th time that Benoit Paire and Steve Johnson play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Paire (see full H2H stats), but Johnson leads 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Paire won 7-5 7-6⁵ in the 1^st round in Halle back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

• Benoit PaireBenoit – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (7-6(5) 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Steve JohnsonSteve – John MillmanJohn (4-6 7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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