Stefan Kozlov shocks Alexander Ritschard 5-7 6-4 6-1 in the 3rd round in Las Vegas Challenger on Thursday. Kozlov is going to play against James Duckworth in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Alexander won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Ritschard broke back in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set 7-5.
Stefan couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set (from 2-5 to 7-5).
2nd set.
Kozlov conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Ritschard in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, there was more to do for Kozlov to win the set because Alexander succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3) game. Kozlov kept his focus to break Ritschard in the 10th (6-4) game.
3rd set.
Kozlov took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Ritschard in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Kozlov managed to boost his lead after breaking the Swiss in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when Kozlov won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Stefan scored 113 points vs. Alexander’s 90 points.
Stefan won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points because he converted only 31% (5/16). On the other side, Ritschard had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 30% of his break points (3/10). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Kozlov and Ritschard is 1-1.
Next Match: Stefan Kozlov vs. James Duckworth – stats
Kozlov will play Duckworth in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Stefan Kozlov and James Duckworth since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Las Vegas Challenger
- Taro DanielDaniel – Gonzalo EscobarEscobar (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Alexander RitschardRitschard (5-7 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-0 7-64) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-3 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Taro DanielDaniel (0-1) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (2-0) – See H2H details
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – See H2H details
