MOSCOW RESULTS. Marin Cilic overcomes Karlovic in the 2nd round

Marin Cilic beats Ivo Karlovic 6-1 7-6⁵ in the 2^nd round in Moscow on Thursday. Cilic will face off with Jeremy Chardy in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Cilic overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Karlovic in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Marin improved his lead after breaking Ivo in the 4^th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).

A crucial moment of the match was when Marin won 5 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.

2^nd set.

The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, Marin won the breaker at 5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Cilic scored 69 points vs. Ivo’s 56 points.

Cilic served very well to win 88% of the points (38/43) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 44% points (12/27) on his second serve. Cilic struck 11 aces and he committed 8 double faults. Marin won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 40% (2/5). On the other side, Karlovic wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Cilic and Karlovic is 4-3 for Marin.

Next Match: Marin Cilic vs. Jeremy Chardy – stats

Cilic will square off with Chardy in the quarter.

This will be the 6^th time that Marin Cilic and Jeremy Chardy square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.

The last time that they squared off, Cilic won 6-3 6-0 in the 2^nd round in Monte Carlo back in 2017.

Tennis Scores in Moscow

• Marin CilicCilic – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (6-1 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Alen AvidzbaAvidzba (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (7-6³ 6-7⁶ 6-2) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (5-7 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (3-6 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Lukas RosolRosol (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – See H2H details
• Marin CilicCilic – Jeremy ChardyChardy (3-2) – See H2H details
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-2) – See H2H details
• Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – See H2H details