Novak Djokovic tops Denis Kudla 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the 3rd round in New York on Friday. Djokovic will seek to keep on going in this event against Stan Wawrinka in the 4th round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Djokovic conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Serbian conquered in the 5th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).
3rd set.
Djokovic was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Kudla in the 1st game (1-0). Novak reinforced his lead after breaking the American in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
Statistics
After this contest, the head to head between Djokovic and Kudla is 2-0 for Novak.
Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Denis Kudla U.S. Open – New York
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Next Match: Novak Djokovic vs. Stan Wawrinka – stats
Djokovic will compete against Wawrinka in the 4th round.
This will be the 26th time that Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka play each other. The head to head is 20-5 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 8-2 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Wawrinka won 6-71 6-4 7-5 6-3 in the final in New York back in 2016.
Novak Djokovic in New York |
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Tennis Scores at the Us Open
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (7-5 7-68 6-2) – See score progression
- Roger FedererFederer – Daniel EvansEvans (6-2 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (6-4 7-69 7-64) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 7-65 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Feliciano LopezLopez (7-61 4-6 7-67 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-2 6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-65 7-69 7-5) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Denis KudlaKudla (6-3 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
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- John IsnerIsner – Marin CilicCilic (3-8) – See H2H details
- Hyeon ChungChung – Rafael NadalNadal (0-2) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (20-5) – See H2H details
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roger FedererFederer – David GoffinGoffin (8-1) – See H2H details
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – See H2H details