TENNIS SCORES. Damir Dzumhur topples Karatsev in the qualifications of the St. Petersburg Open

Damir Dzumhur victorious over Aslan Karatsev 6-3 7-6⁵ in the qualifications in St. Petersburg on Sunday. Dzumhur will fight against Lukas Rosol in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Dzumhur was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Karatsev in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break resulted decisive for Damir to win the set (6-3) as no one dropped a serve anymore.

2^nd set.

Karatsev was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Dzumhur in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, the Bosnian managed to stage a great comeback to break Aslan in the 7^th (3-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Dzumhur scored 76 points vs. Aslan’s 64 points.

The Bosnian served very well to win 79% of the points (30/38) behind his first serve, and he won 61% points (17/28) on his second serve. Damir won this match even if he had some problems in converting his break points because he converted only 33% (2/6). On the other side, Aslan was battling in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Dzumhur and Karatsev is 1-0 for Damir.

Next Match: Damir Dzumhur vs. Lukas Rosol – stats

Dzumhur will square off with Rosol in the qualifications.

This will be the 2^nd time that Damir Dzumhur and Lukas Rosol square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Dzumhur (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played, Dzumhur won 6-3 6-0 in the 1^st round in Umag back in 2015.

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Lukas RosolRosol – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Matteo ViolaViola – Alexander VasilenkoVasilenko (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Ernests GulbisGulbis – Amir WeintraubWeintraub (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-1) – See H2H details
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Lukas RosolRosol (1-0) – See H2H details
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – See H2H details
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