Stefanos Sakellaridis came through 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 against Duje Ajdukovic in Genoa, winning a match decided on the margins rather than on returns. Neither player converted a single break point in the available box score, so the first-set tiebreak and the closing games of the decider carried the whole contest.
The opening set went with serve to a tiebreak, which Sakellaridis edged. Ajdukovic hit back to take the second 6-2, but in the third the Croatian could not find the extra game and lost it 4-6, with no breaks recorded in the tracked data for either the first or third set.
The recorded numbers were tight throughout: one ace and one double fault apiece, 24 points logged for each player in the tracked sample. Sakellaridis did it while landing only 41% of first serves, leaning heavily on a second serve he put in 15 of 16 times, and it was enough.