Aslan Karatsev ousts Arnaldi in the 1st round to set up a battle vs Murray at the Zhuhai Open. HIGHLIGHTS – ZHUHAI RESULTS

Aslan Karatsev tops Matteo Arnaldi 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 1^st round in Zhuhai on Thursday. Karatsev will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Andy Murray in the 2^nd round. The epic lasted 3 hours and 9 minutes.

Zhuhai

Karatsev's Record

The Russian added to his prize money $ 6,700 after winning this match. He has already won $ 17,230 after this win. If he wins the next match, Karatsev will add $ 12,445 to his earnings to get in total $ 29,675 in total.

Highlights Aslan Karatsev vs. Matteo Arnaldi Zhuhai Open – Zhuhai

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Karatsev

Arnaldi

6-7⁵ 7-6⁵ 6-2
3h:09

120

120

Total points

101

101

50

50

Winners

52

52

42%

42%

Ratio Winners

51%

51%

-- Serve --

17

17

Aces

7

7

9

9

Double Faults

4

4

63%

63%

1st in

62%

62%

83%

83%

1st won

67%

67%

50/60

50/60

1st won

52/78

52/78

57%

57%

2nd won

50%

50%

20/35

20/35

2nd won

24/48

24/48

-- Break Points --

4/11

4/11

Total

2/4

2/4

36%

36%

Won

50%

50%

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At the end of the match, Karatsev scored 120 points vs. Arnaldi’s 101.

Karatsev

Karatsev served exceptionally well to win 83% of the points (50/60) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (20/35) on his second serve. The Russian struck 17 aces and he committed 9 double faults. The Russian won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.

Arnaldi

On the other side, Matteo was effective at converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Karatsev and Arnaldi is 1-0 for Aslan.

Draw and next match H2H: Aslan Karatsev vs. Andy Murray – stats

Karatsev will square off with Murray in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Aslan Karatsev and Andy Murray fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Karatsev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

Live score progression and stats

Arnaldi won the set after he broke Karatsev .

Matteo was perfect in converting all his break points in the 14^th game (7-5 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Arnaldi didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 85 points. It’s worth to point out that, Matteo won this set even if he scored less points 11 than the Russian (37-48). Arnaldi lost 11 points on serve (25-11). In addition, on the other side, the Russian conceded 12 points on serve (37-12).

Karatsev won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 7^th (3-4) and in the 9^th (4-5) game, Aslan broke back in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game to conquer the set 7-6.

Karatsev converted 28% of his break points (2/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 8^th (3-4 0-40), the 10^th (4-5 15-40), the 12^th (6-5 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 14^th game (7-5 40-A). On the other side, Arnaldi was unerring in converting all his break points in the 7^th (3-3 15-40) and the 9^th game (4-4 15-40).

They contested 91 points. The contest during this set was so even that Karatsev won only 1 point more than the Italian (46-45). Karatsev lost 11 points on serve (14-11). on the other side of the court, Matteo conceded 32 points on serve (34-32).

Karatsev didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Matteo Arnaldi in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. That break resulted decisive for Aslan to win the set (6-2) as there were no other breaks.

Aslan converted 20% of his break points (1/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 3^rd (2-0 30-40) and the 7^th game (5-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Aslan didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 47 points. Aslan won 7 points more than the Italian (27-20). Karatsev surrendered 5 points on serve (16-5). on the other side of the court, Arnaldi conceded 11 points on serve (15-11).

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai

• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-7⁵ 7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats and score progression
• Alex BoltBolt – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-3 4-2 ret.) – Stats and score progression
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats and score progression
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
• Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Juncheng ShangShang (6-4 6-7³ 6-3) – Stats and score progression
• Andy MurrayMurray – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
• Cristian GarinGarin – Yi ZhouZhou (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andy MurrayMurray – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-1) – H2H details and stats
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-1) – H2H details and stats
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-2) – H2H details and stats
• Christian GarinGarin – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-0) – H2H details and stats
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H details and stats
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H details and stats
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H details and stats
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H details and stats