Adrian Mannarino tops Pavel Kotov 6-2 7-6(2) in the semifinal in Sofia on Friday. Mannarino will square off with Jack Draper in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this event. Previously, the best he could do was reach the semifinal in 2020. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
Mannarino added to his prize money € 20,585 after winning this match. He has already won € 49,940 after this win. If he wins the next match, Mannarino will add € 35,665 to his earnings to get in total € 85,605 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Adrian scored 65 points vs. Pavel’s 48.
Mannarino
Mannarino served extremely well to win 76% of the points (31/41) behind his first serve, and he won 80% points (12/15) on his second serve. Adrian was well focused in converting 67% of the break points that he conquered (2/3).
Kotov
On the other side, the Russian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Mannarino and Kotov is 1-0 for Adrian.
Draw and next match H2H: Adrian Mannarino vs. Jack Draper – stats
Mannarino will face Draper in the final.
There is no head to head record between Adrian Mannarino and Jack Draper since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The French player in this set didn’t concede much to Pavel and consequently he won 6-2 after breaking the Russian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
Certainly, a key moment was when Adrian won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the game count from 0-1 to 5-1.
Adrian was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 3rd (1-1 15-40) and the 5th game (3-1 15-40). On the other side, the French player didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 44 points. Mannarino was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than the Russian (27-17). Mannarino was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). In addition, on the other side, Pavel conceded 11 points on serve (14-11).
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Mannarino had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
Adrian won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 7th (5-2) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, Pavel won a minibreak in the 2nd (1-1) point.
Adrian won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 4-2 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 4-1, 4-2, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
Mannarino wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (3-3 30-40). Also, on the other side, the Russian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They played 68 points. Adrian won 6 more points than Kotov (37-31). Mannarino lost 9 points on serve (29-9). Regarding the other side of the net, Pavel conceded 8 points on serve (22-8).
Tennis Scores in Sofia
- Jack DraperDraper – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 7-62) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jack DraperDraper – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – H2H details and stats