TENNIS SCORES. Kokkinakis stuns Ivashka in the 1st round in New York

U.S. OPEN - NEW YORK. Kokkinakis stuns Ivashka to face Rafael Nadal in the 2nd round

Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Ilya Ivashka

Thanasi Kokkinakis stuns Ilya Ivashka 6-3 7-68 6-74 6-2 in the 1st round in New York on Tuesday. Kokkinakis will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Rafael Nadal in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

The Australian won the set after he broke Ivashka in the 7th (4-3) and in the 9th (6-3) game. That break was the key for Thanasi to conquer the set since he didn’t drop his serve in the rest of the set.

Ilya had no answers in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-3 to 6-3).

2nd set.

The Australian won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Kokkinakis broke back in the 4th (2-2) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 8.

3rd set.

Ilya conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 11th (5-6) game, Ivashka broke back in the 12th (6-6) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.

4th set.

Kokkinakis in this set played at a much higher level than the Belarussian and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Ilya in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.

Ilya was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-2 to 6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Thanasi scored 144 points vs. the Belarussian’s 131 points.

Kokkinakis served extremely well to win 89% of the points (66/74) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 39% points (26/66) on his second serve. The Australian fired 14 aces and he committed 8 double faults. Kokkinakis didn’t lose the focus when converting 67% of the break points that he conquered (6/9). On the other side, Ivashka was far from perfect in converting his break points since he converted only 20% of his break points (2/10). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Kokkinakis and Ivashka is 1-0 for Thanasi.

Highlights Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Ilya Ivashka U.S. Open – New York

Next Match: Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Rafael Nadal – stats

Kokkinakis will compete against Nadal in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Thanasi Kokkinakis and Rafael Nadal play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Nadal won 6-2 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in Melbourne back in 2014.

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