MOSCOW. Spirited Karlovic outlasts Bedene in the 1st round of the Kremlin Cup

Ivo Karlovic outlasts Aljaz Bedene 6-4 6-7⁵ 7-6⁶ in the 1^st round in Moscow on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Karlovic will fight against Marin Cilic in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Karlovic conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, the Slovenian won the tiebreak at 5.

3^rd set.

Also in this set, nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, Ivo won the breaker at 6.

Statistics

Karlovic won this encounter even if he won less points than Bedene (104 vs. 107).

Karlovic served pretty well to win 85% of the points (60/71) behind his first serve, and he won 58% points (22/38) on his second serve. Karlovic blasted 35 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Ivo won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points because he converted only 25% (1/4). On the other side, Bedene wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this encounter, the head to head between Karlovic and Bedene is 1-4 for Aljaz.

Next Match: Ivo Karlovic vs. Marin Cilic – stats

Karlovic will play Cilic in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 7^th time that Ivo Karlovic and Marin Cilic play each other. The head to head is 3-3 for Karlovic and Cilic (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Karlovic won 7-6⁴ 5-7 7-6² in the semifinal in S Hertogenbosch back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Moscow

• Alen AvidzbaAvidzba – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-1 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Ivo KarlovicKarlovic – Aljaz BedeneBedene (6-4 6-7⁵ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-2 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (6-1 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Christian GarinGarin (3-6 7-6² 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Lukas RosolRosol – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (6-7⁴ 7-6⁷ 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-6² 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – See H2H details
• Marin CilicCilic – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (3-3) – See H2H details
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-2) – See H2H details
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Andrey RublevRublev (1-0) – See H2H details
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Alen AvidzbaAvidzba (0-0) – See H2H details