Karen Khachanov survives Philipp Kohlschreiber 3-6 6-3 7-67 in the 2nd round in Moscow on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Khachanov is going to play against Andreas Seppi in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Kohlschreiber conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Similarly to the 1st set, there was not much difference between them in this set with the exception of 1 break that Karen conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
The Russian conquered the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 8th (3-5) game, Karen broke back in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 7.
Statistics
Khachanov won this match even if he conquered less points than the German (101 vs. 104).
The Russian served pretty well to win 77% of the points (41/53) behind his first serve. Nonetheless he won only 46% points (24/52) on his second serve. Karen didn’t lose the focus when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (2/4). On the other side, Kohlschreiber was struggling in converting his break points because he converted only 25% of his break points (2/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Khachanov and Kohlschreiber is 2-3 for Philipp.
Next Match: Karen Khachanov vs. Andreas Seppi – stats
Khachanov will face Seppi in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Karen Khachanov and Andreas Seppi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Khachanov won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Vienna back in 2016.
Tennis Scores in Moscow
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Lukas RosolRosol (6-4 6-76 6-3) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (5-7 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (3-6 6-3 7-67) – 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
