Lucas Pouille downs Filip Krajinovic 4-6 7-5 6-2 in the quarter in Metz on Friday. Pouille will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Serbian conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Lucas won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, The French Player broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 12th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
3rd set.
Lucas in this set was in much better shape than the Serbian and eventually he won 6-2. Filip broke the French Player 3 times in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (5-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, Pouille broke his opponent in the 7th (5-2) game, but that didn’t prevent his to conquer the set (6-2).
The French Player failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 15.
Filip lost the 8th game (6-2) when he was 40-0 up.
A crucial moment of the match was when Pouille won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Lucas scored 96 points vs. Filip’s 91 points.
Lucas fired 11 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Lucas was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured (5/10). On the other side, Filip had a tough time in converting his break points because he converted only 27% of his break points (3/11). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Pouille and Krajinovic is 3-0 for Lucas.
Next Match: Lucas Pouille vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga – stats
Pouille will compete against Tsonga in the semifinal.
This will be the 5th time that Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga clash against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Pouille and Tsonga (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Pouille won 1-6 5-5 ret. in the semifinal in Montpellier back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Metz
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (5-7 6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Benoit PairePaire (2-4) – See H2H details
- Lucas PouillePouille – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (2-2) – See H2H details
