TENNIS SCORES. Martin downs Clezar in the quarter in the L’Aquila Challenger

Andrej Martin aces Guilherme Clezar 3-6 7-6² 6-4 in the quarter in L’Aquila Challenger on Saturday. Martin will face Dmitry Popko in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Guilherme conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

The Slovakian won the set after he broke Guilherme in the 6^th (4-2) game. The Brazilian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9^th (5-4) game. Yet, the Slovakian stayed solid before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 2.

3^rd set.

Martin had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Clezar in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Andrej to win the set because the Brazilian found the way to break back in the 4^th (2-2) game. Martin maintained his cool to break Clezar in the 7^th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Andrej scored 102 points vs. Guilherme’s 95 points.

Andrej won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, Clezar was pretty focused in converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this encounter, the head to head between Martin and Clezar is 2-1.

Next Match: Andrej Martin vs. Dmitry Popko – stats

Martin will square off with Popko in the semifinal.

There is no head to head record between Andrej Martin and Dmitry Popko since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

The last time that they played, Martin won 5-7 6-4 6-4 in the final in Shymkent Challenger back in May 2019.

Tennis Scores in L’Aquila Challenger

• Andrej MartinMartin – Guilherme ClezarClezar (3-6 7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (7-6⁸ 6-2) – See score progression
• Andrea CollariniCollarini – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (2-6 6-2 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andrej MartinMartin – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea CollariniCollarini – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – See H2H details