Blaz Kavcic stuns Nicola Kuhn 6-3 6-0 in the quarter in Istanbul Challenger on Friday after playing a fantastic match to deal with Ugo Humbert in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Kavcic won the set after he broke Nicola 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Kuhn tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Notwithstanding, Kavcic stayed solid before winning the set 6-3.
Blaz failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
2nd set.
Kuhn was broken 3 times and the Slovenian won the set 6-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Kavcic scored 63 points vs. the Spaniard’s 43 points.
The Slovenian served extremely well to win 76% of the points (22/29) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 39% points (7/18) on his second serve. The Slovenian was stunning in converting all the break points (6/6). On the other side, Nicola was struggling in converting his break points because he converted only 20% of his break points (1/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Kavcic and Kuhn is 1-0.
Next Match: Blaz Kavcic vs. Ugo Humbert – stats
Kavcic will fight against Humbert in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Blaz Kavcic and Ugo Humbert since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger
- Denis IstominIstomin – Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Blaz KavcicKavcic – Nicola KuhnKuhn (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – David PoljakPoljak (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Ruben BemelmansBemelmans (6-73 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Blaz KavcicKavcic (0-0) – See H2H details
