Reilly Opelka gets by John Isner 7-6(7) 7-6(22) in the semifinal in Dallas on Saturday in what was an all-American contest. Opelka will play Jenson Brooksby in the final. The battle lasted exactly 2 hours. Opelka won this tournament once in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Opelka added to his prize money $ 25,905 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 62,865 after this win. If he wins the next match, Opelka will add $ 44,905 to his earnings to get in total $ 107,770 in total.
Highlights Reilly Opelka vs. John Isner Dallas Open – Dallas
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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Reilly won this encounter even if he conquered the same amount of points of Isner (89 vs. 89).
Opelka
Reilly served extremely well to win 87% of the points (59/68) behind his first serve, and he won 73% points (16/22) on his second serve. Opelka fired 39 aces without committing any double fault. Reilly wasn’t able to conquer any break point to win the match only at the breakers.
Isner
On the other side, Isner wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Opelka and Isner is 4-1 for Reilly.
Draw and next match H2H: Reilly Opelka vs. Jenson Brooksby – stats
Opelka will compete against Brooksby in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Reilly Opelka and Jenson Brooksby square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Brooksby (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, Reilly won a thrilling breaker 9-7 after a huge fight with 16 points played.
Tiebreak
Reilly won 2 minibreaks in the 5th (3-2) and 16th (9-7) point. On the other side, Isner won a minibreak in the 7th (3-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 6-7, 7-7, 8-7, 9-7
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Opelka saved 2 set points when he was 4-5 and 6-7 down. In addition on the other side, Reilly didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 78 points. This set was so close that, Opelka won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Opelka conceded 8 points on serve (32-8). on the other side of the court, John conceded 7 points on serve (31-7).
Opelka won what was the longest tiebreak in tennis history.
Tennis Scores in Dallas
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 6-74 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – John IsnerIsner (7-67 7-622) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (1-0) – H2H details and stats
