Dominik Koepfer outlasts Zhizhen Zhang 4-6 7-6(5) 7-6(6) in the 1st round in Stuttgart on Monday after conquering a huge battle. Koepfer will try to keep the momentum against Lorenzo Musetti in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 36 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this tournament. Previously, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
Dominik added to his prize money € 5,020 after winning this match. He has already won € 12,900 after this win. If he wins the next match, the German will add € 9,315 to his earnings to get in total € 22,215 in total.
Highlights Dominik Koepfer vs. Zhizhen Zhang Boss Open – Stuttgart
ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgc5JxTjqo4
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Koepfer won this match even if he scored less points than Zhizhen (112 vs. 119).
Koepfer
Dominik struck 12 aces and he committed 8 double faults. Dominik won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 29% (2/7) of the procured opportunities.
Zhang
On the other side, Zhizhen was far from perfect in converting his break points (only 33% – 3/9). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Koepfer and Zhang is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Dominik Koepfer vs. Lorenzo Musetti – stats
Koepfer will square off with Musetti in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Dominik Koepfer and Lorenzo Musetti square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Koepfer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
Tennis Scores in Stuttgart
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (7-69 7-69)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-64 6-4)
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-4 7-62)
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (6-4 7-5)
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-68 5-7 7-5)
- Jack DraperDraper – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-64 7-65)
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-73 6-1 6-4)
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Henri SquireSquire (6-3 6-3)
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (4-6 7-65 7-66)
Upcoming matches
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- James DuckworthDuckworth – (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marcos GironGiron – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-1) – H2H details and stats