MOSCOW. Sebastian Ofner conquers Basic in the qualifications

Sebastian Ofner aces Mirza Basic 7-6³ 3-6 6-3 in the qualifications in Moscow on Saturday. Ofner will engage against Damir Dzumhur in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

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

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Bosnian conquered in the 8^th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

Ofner enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Basic in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break resulted decisive for Ofner to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Austrian scored 86 points vs. Basic’s 81 points.

Ofner served very well to win 80% of the points (41/51) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (21/36) on his second serve. Ofner struck 12 aces and he committed 6 double faults. Sebastian was pretty good in converting 67% of the break points that he procured (2/3). On the other side, Basic was not so effective in converting his break points since he converted only 40% of his break points (2/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Ofner and Basic is 1-0 for Sebastian.

Next Match: Sebastian Ofner vs. Damir Dzumhur – stats

Ofner will fight against Dzumhur in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Sebastian Ofner and Damir Dzumhur since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Moscow

• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Mirza BasicBasic (7-6³ 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Maxime JanvierJanvier (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Lukas RosolRosol – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip HoranskyHoransky – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-0 6-3) – See score progression

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• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (2-5) – See H2H details
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• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-0) – See H2H details
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• Christian GarinGarin – Andreas SeppiSeppi (0-0) – See H2H details
• Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – See H2H details