
Daniil Medvedev tops Karen Khachanov 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Doha on Tuesday in what was an all-Russian encounter. Medvedev is going to play against Zizou Bergs in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 31 minutes. Daniil won this tournament once in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Daniil added to his prize money $ 18,840 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 40,365 after this win. If he wins the next match, Medvedev will add $ 35,250 to his earnings to get in total $ 75,615 in total.
Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Karen Khachanov Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Doha
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Daniil scored 103 points vs. Karen’s 92.
Medvedev
Daniil served pretty well to win 78% of the points (56/72) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 48% points (15/31) on his second serve. Medvedev blasted 10 aces without committing any double fault. Medvedev won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 40% (2/5) of the procured opportunities.
Khachanov
On the other side, Khachanov was battling in converting his break points (only 14% – 1/7). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Medvedev and Khachanov is 6-2 for Daniil.
Draw and next match H2H: Daniil Medvedev vs. Zizou Bergs – stats
Medvedev will face Bergs in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Daniil Medvedev and Zizou Bergs since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Khachanov grabbed in the 7th game (4-3) before eventually conquering the set (6-4).
Khachanov missed the chance to break Medvedev in the 5th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Khachanov was perfect in converting all his break points in the 5th (2-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 7th game (3-3 15-40). On the other side, Karen didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 81 points. It’s worth to point out that, Karen won this set even if he scored less points 1 than Daniil (40-41). Karen lost 11 points on serve (21-11). on the other side of the court, Daniil conceded 19 points on serve (30-19).
Similarly to the 1st set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Daniil grabbed in the 12th game (7-5) before finally winning the set (7-5).
Daniil failed to serve out the set when leading 7-5 to be broken at 15.
Medvedev wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, Medvedev didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 66 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Medvedev won just 2 points more than Karen (34-32). Daniil surrendered 10 points on serve (25-10). On the other side, Karen conceded 9 points on serve (22-9).
Similarly to the 2nd set, the set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Medvedev clinched in the 4th game (3-1) just before eventually conquering the set (6-3).
Daniil converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 6th (4-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, Daniil didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 48 points. Daniil conquered the set after winning 8 more points than Karen (28-20). Daniil was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (16-3). On the losing side, Karen conceded 12 points on serve (17-12).
Tennis Scores in Doha
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (7-66 6-3)
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Quentin HalysHalys (4-6 6-4 7-62)
- Zizou BergsBergs – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-4 7-64)
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-1 7-5)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (6-3 6-4)
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (7-65 7-67)
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (7-64 6-2)
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (7-5 6-3)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-6 7-5 6-3)
- Luca NardiNardi – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Aziz DougazDougaz (7-5 6-3)
- Jack DraperDraper – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-2 7-64)
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-4 6-4)
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Hady HabibHabib (7-67 7-63)
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jack DraperDraper (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Zizou BergsBergs – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – (0-0) – H2H details and stats