TENNIS SCORES. Mikhail Kukushkin conquers Dzumhur in the 2nd round in St. Petersburg

Mikhail Kukushkin defeats Damir Dzumhur 7-6² 6-2 in the 2^nd round in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. Kukushkin is going to play against Joao Sousa in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mikhail won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 6^th (2-4) game, The Kazakhstani broke back in the 7^th (3-4) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 2.

2^nd set.

Kukushkin in this set played at a much higher level than Damir and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Damir in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Mikhail scored 79 points vs. Damir’s 71 points.

Mikhail won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 30% (3/10). On the other side, Dzumhur was far from perfect 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 demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Kukushkin and Dzumhur is 2-3 for Damir.

Next Match: Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Joao Sousa – stats

Kukushkin will compete against Sousa in the quarter.

This will be the 4^th time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Joao Sousa fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they squared off, Sousa won 6-3 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in Melbourne back in 2016.

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Borna CoricCoric – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-7⁵ 7-5 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Casper RuudRuud – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Joao SousaSousa (2-1) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Andrey RublevRublev (1-0) – See H2H details
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Casper RuudRuud – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details