Pierre-Hugues Herbert conquers Tallon Griekspoor 7-5 5-7 6-3 in the quarter in the Prague Challenger on Thursday. Herbert will have to play Aslan Karatsev in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
Pierre-Hugues won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 5th (2-3) and in the 9th (4-5) game, Herbert broke back 3 times in the 8th (4-4), in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th () game to conquer the set 7-5.
Pierre-Hugues converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-4 15-40 and 30-40), the 10th (4-5 15-40 and 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Tallon converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had his opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A), the 7th (4-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 9th (4-4 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40).
They contested 81 points. This set was a huge battle since finally Herbert won just 1 point more than Griekspoor (41-40). Pierre-Hugues surrendered 22 points on serve (26-22). on the other side of the net, Griekspoor conceded 15 points on serve (18-15).
Griekspoor had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Herbert in the 1st game (1-0). Anyhow, that was not enough for Tallon to win the set since the French player managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 10th (5-5) game. The Dutch maintained his focus to break Pierre-Hugues in the 9th (5-4) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Tallon failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 40.
The Dutch converted 50% of his break points (3/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 7th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40), the 9th (4-4 0-40) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40 and 30-40). In addition on the other side, Pierre-Hugues converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had his opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 6th (3-2 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 10th game (4-5 40-A).
They contested 76 points. Tallon was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than Pierre-Hugues (41-35). Griekspoor conceded 18 points on serve (23-18). on the other side of the net, the French player conceded 18 points on serve (17-18).
Griekspoor didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Herbert in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, the French player refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Tallon in the 6th (3-3) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
Griekspoor couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-3 to 6-3.
Herbert converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (4-3 15-40). Furthermore, on the other side, the Dutch converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40) and the 7th game (3-3 30-40 and 40-A).
They contested 53 points. the French player won 5 more points than Tallon (29-24). Herbert dropped 13 points on serve (19-13). Regarding the other side of the net, Tallon conceded 10 points on serve (11-10).
the French player will add to his prize money € 2,660 after winning this match. He has won already € 6,370 until now in this tournament. If he wins the next match, Pierre-Hugues will add € 4,400 to his earnings to get in total € 10,770.
Match Statistics
Pierre-Hugues won this match even if he conquered the same amount of points of the Dutch (105 vs. 105).
the French player won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points as he converted only 47% (7/15) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Tallon was struggling when converting his break points (only 38% – 6/16). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Herbert and Griekspoor is 1-0 for Pierre-Hugues.
Draw and next match H2H: Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Aslan Karatsev – stats
Herbert will square off with Karatsev in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Aslan Karatsev since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Prague Challenger
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (7-5 5-7 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Elias YmerYmer (6-2 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Sumit NagalNagal (2-6 6-0 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (7-63 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
