Tomas Machac surprises Martin Klizan 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Ortisei Challenger on Thursday. Machac will square off with Ilya Ivashka in the quarter.
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Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Machac snatched in the 9th game (5-4) just before finally winning the set (6-4).
Machac converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (4-4 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Tomas didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 52 points. Tomas was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than Klizan (31-21). The Czech was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (21-4). Regarding the other side of the net, Martin conceded 10 points on serve (17-10).
The Czech in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay the Slovakian and without struggling too much he won 6-2 after breaking Martin in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
The Czech won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when the Czech won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to convert the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
The Czech was perfect in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 0-40) and the 5th game (3-1 0-40). On the other side, the Czech didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 36 points. The Czech won 14 points more than Klizan (25-11). Tomas was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (16-3). On the other side, Klizan conceded 9 points on serve (8-9).
The Czech will add to his prize money € 530 after winning this match. He has won already € 1,260 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tomas will add € 900 to his earnings to get in total € 2,160 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Czech scored 56 points vs. the Slovakian’s 32.
Tomas served pretty well to win 90% of the points (28/31) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (9/13) on his second serve. Machac didn’t lose the concentration in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered (3/4). On the other side, Martin wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, The Czech was just to good and the Slovakian had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Machac and Klizan is 1-0 for Tomas.
Draw and next match H2H: Tomas Machac vs. Ilya Ivashka – stats
Machac will square off with Ivashka in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Tomas Machac and Ilya Ivashka face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Machac and Ivashka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Machac won 6-0 7-5 in the 2nd round in Prague Challenger back in August 2020.
Tennis Scores in Ortisei Challenger
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (7-5 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Martin KlizanKlizan (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Julian LenzLenz – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-3 7-64) – Stats and score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (7-66 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hugo GrenierGrenier (w/o) – Stats and score progression
- Federico GaioGaio – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Jay ClarkeClarke (7-62 6-74 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Antoine HoangHoang – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Federico GaioGaio – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Julian LenzLenz – Antoine HoangHoang (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tomas MachacMachac – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (0-0) – H2H details and stats