ROTTERDAM RESULTS. Astonishing Krajinovic too good for Griekspoor in the 1st round

Filip Krajinovic motors past Tallon Griekspoor 6-4 6-1 in the 1^st round in Rotterdam on Tuesday after playing a remarkable match.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Krajinovic conquered in the 3^rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).

Filip was unable to break the Dutch in the 5^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

2^nd set.

Filip won the set after he broke Griekspoor 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game. That break turned to be decisive for Krajinovic to win the set as he didn’t concede his serve in the rest of the set.

Griekspoor was completely wiped out in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Filip scored 59 points vs. Tallon’s 39 points.

The Serbian served pretty well to win 89% of the points (25/28) behind his first serve, and he won 55% points (11/20) on his second serve. Filip won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points since he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Griekspoor wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

After this encounter, the head to head between Krajinovic and Griekspoor is 1-0 for Filip.

Tennis Scores in Rotterdam

• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-7² 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexander BublikBublik – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-3 6-7² 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Benoit PairePaire (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-5 6-7³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (4-6 7-6¹ 6-1) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Gilles SimonSimon – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6(3) 3-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (2-1) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Joao SousaSousa (3-1) – See H2H details
• Robin HaaseHaase – David GoffinGoffin (1-6) – See H2H details
• Daniel EvansEvans – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Aljaz BedeneBedene – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – See H2H details
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Vasek PospisilPospisil (1-0) – See H2H details
• Alexander BublikBublik – Andrey RublevRublev (1-2) – See H2H details
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – See H2H details