Kevin King bests Collin Altamirano 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in Las Vegas Challenger on Tuesday. King will engage against Marcos Giron in the 2nd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that King conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
King had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Altamirano in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Kevin to win the set because Collin managed to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. King kept his cool to break Collin in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Kevin scored 67 points vs. Altamirano’s 55 points.
Kevin served extremely well to win 79% of the points (31/39) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (10/18) on his second serve. Kevin won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points as he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, Collin was fantastic in converting all the break points (1/1). However, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this match, the head to head between King and Altamirano is 2-0.
Next Match: Kevin King vs. Marcos Giron – stats
King will come up against Giron in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Kevin King and Marcos Giron square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Giron (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Giron won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Columbus Challenger back in January 2019.
Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Alex KobeltKobelt (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Kevin KingKing – Collin AltamiranoAltamirano (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Roy SmithSmith – Marcelo ArevaloArevalo (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Jc AragoneAragone – Laurent LokoliLokoli (7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Sekou BangouraBangoura – Evan KingKing (6-75 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael RedlickiRedlicki – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jack DraperDraper (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Evan SongSong (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool – Martin RedlickiRedlicki (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Dennis NovikovNovikov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Roberto CidCid (6-3 2-6 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Gonzalo EscobarEscobar – Sebastian KordaKorda (6-7(1) 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Donald YoungYoung – Gonzalo EscobarEscobar (0-0) – See H2H details
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Vasek PospisilPospisil (1-0) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jack SockSock – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (0-0) – See H2H details
- Liam BroadyBroady – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – See H2H details
- Darian KingKing – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kevin KingKing – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – See H2H details
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-1) – See H2H details
- Roy SmithSmith – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – See H2H details