Baghdatis Serves Up Double Bagel In Houston
Baghdatis Serves Up Double Bagel In Houston
First 6-0, 6-0 decision of 2016 ATP World Tour season
Marcos Baghdatis made a perfect start to his campaign at the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship, dismissing Diego Schwartzman 6-0, 6-0 in 48 minutes on Tuesday afternoon in Houston.
It marked the first double bagel on the ATP World Tour since last April, when Sergiy Stakhovsky defeated Mikhail Ledovskikh in the Munich first round, and the first at this ATP World Tour 250 tournament since 1986 (Diego Perez d. Bruno Oresar).
Baghdatis capitalised on six of his 12 break point chances and won 77 per cent of his service points en route to his most decisive tour-level victory. In 2011, he dropped one game against Denis Gremelmayr in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch quarter-finals.
The 30-year-old Cypriot will meet the winner between Fernando Verdasco and qualifier Carlos Berlocq as he looks to reach the Houston quarter-finals for the first time.