Daniel Evans victorious over Karen Khachanov 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Rotterdam on Wednesday. Evans will fight against Gael Monfils in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Karen conquered in the 3rd game (2-1) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Evans enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Khachanov in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was sufficient for Daniel to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks anymore.
3rd set.
Evans won the set after he broke Khachanov in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game. Khachanov tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. Nevertheless, the Brit maintained the focus before winning the set 6-4.
There was an important spell in this match when Daniel won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Daniel scored 93 points vs. the Russian’s 83 points.
Daniel served extremely well to win 79% of the points (41/52) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 48% points (14/29) on his second serve. Daniel won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points because he converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, the Russian was absolutely great in converting all the break points (2/2). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Evans and Khachanov is 1-0 for Daniel.
Next Match H2H: Daniel Evans vs. Gael Monfils – stats
Evans will take on Monfils in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Daniel Evans and Gael Monfils clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Monfils (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Monfils won 6-4 3-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in Dubai back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Rotterdam
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Gilles SimonSimon (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – David GoffinGoffin (7-67 7-5) – See score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander BublikBublik (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-4 7-67) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-4 2-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – See H2H details
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Andrey RublevRublev (1-1) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Aljaz BedeneBedene (0-0) – See H2H details
