TENNIS SCORES. Sousa stuns Khachanov in the 2nd round in St. Petersburg

Joao Sousa stuns Karen Khachanov 7-6² 6-4 in the 2^nd round in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Sousa will square off with Mikhail Kukushkin in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Portuguese won the set after he broke Khachanov in the 6^th (4-2) game. The Russian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7^th (4-3) game. Nevertheless, Sousa kept the situation under control before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 2.

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Portuguese conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Joao scored 81 points vs. the Russian’s 71 points.

Sousa served extremely well to win 77% of the points (33/43) behind his first serve, and he won 63% points (17/27) on his second serve. The Portuguese was pretty focused in converting 67% of the break points that he conquered (2/3). On the other side, Khachanov was not so effective in converting his break points since 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 Sousa and Khachanov is 1-1.

Next Match: Joao Sousa vs. Mikhail Kukushkin – stats

Sousa will compete against Kukushkin in the quarter.

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

The last time that they played, Sousa won 6-3 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in Australian Open 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