MOSCOW. Lukas Rosol surprises Ignacio Londero in the 1st round of the Kremlin Cup

KREMLIN CUP - MOSCOW. Rosol shocks Ignacio Londero to face Dusan Lajovic in the 2nd round

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Luke Meyer
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Prediction and head to head Lukas Rosol vs. Juan Ignacio Londero

Lukas Rosol upsets Juan Ignacio Londero 6-74 7-67 6-3 in the 1st round in Moscow on Monday. Rosol will face off with Dusan Lajovic in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Ignacio Londero won the set after he broke Lukas in the 3rd (2-1) game. Rosol tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Yet, Juan didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set at the following breaker at 4.

2nd set.

Rosol started the set strong after breaking Ignacio Londero in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for Rosol to win the set because the Argentine succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (3-3) game. The Czech kept his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 7.

3rd set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Lukas conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before winning the set (6-3).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Lukas scored 117 points vs. Juan’s 110 points.

The Czech served extremely well to win 80% of the points (52/65) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (23/41) on his second serve. The Czech struck 20 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Lukas won this match even if he had a tough time in converting his break points because he converted only 25% (3/12). On the other side, Ignacio Londero was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (2/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this contest, the head to head between Rosol and Ignacio Londero is 1-0 for Lukas.

Next Match: Lukas Rosol vs. Dusan Lajovic – stats

Rosol will square off with Lajovic in the 2nd round.

This will be the 3rd time that Lukas Rosol and Dusan Lajovic play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Rosol (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played each other, Rosol won 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in Bucharest back in 2015.

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