Ilya Shymanovich beat Alejandro Sanchez 7-5, 6-2 in Guadalajara in a match where neither player could hold serve with any regularity. Shymanovich converted six break points to his opponent's four, and crucially Sanchez saved none of the seven break points he faced, going 0/6 on the match.
The opening set swung constantly: Sanchez broke in game three at 1-2 and again in game five at 1-4, before Shymanovich hit back in game six at 2-4 and levelled at 4-4 with a break in game eight. Sanchez broke once more in game nine for 4-5, but Shymanovich broke straight back at 5-5 and then again in game twelve to take the set 7-5. The pattern continued early in the second, where Sanchez broke at 0-1 only for Shymanovich to reply immediately at 1-1, add another at 3-1 and close it out with a break in game eight.
The telling number is Sanchez's serve in the second set: he won 0 of 5 first-serve points, 0 of 3 on the second, and zero service points in total across the set. Shymanovich was hardly clean himself, landing just 50% of first serves (28/56) with five double faults, but he won 27 service points to 17 and struck the only two aces of the match.