Kyle Edmund breezes past Miomir Kecmanovic 6-1 6-4 in the semifinal in New York on Saturday after playing a remarkable match to clash against Andreas Seppi in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Edmund was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Kecmanovic in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. Kyle managed to boost his lead after breaking Kecmanovic in the 4th (4-0) game before managing to win the set (6-1).
The Serbian surrendered the 2nd game (2-0) when he was 40-0 up.
One of the most important stint of the contest was when the Brit won 5 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
2nd set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Kyle conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Brit scored 64 points vs. Miomir’s 48 points.
Kyle served extremely well to win 79% of the points (33/42) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 48% points (10/21) on his second serve. Edmund won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points because he converted only 43% (3/7). On the other side, Miomir wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2
). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.After this contest, the head to head between Edmund and Kecmanovic is 1-0 for Kyle.
Next Match H2H: Kyle Edmund vs. Andreas Seppi – stats
Edmund will play Seppi in the final.
This will be the 6th time that Kyle Edmund and Andreas Seppi play each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Edmund (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Edmund won 6-3 7-64 in the 2nd round in Auckland back in January 2020.
Tennis Scores in New York
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Jason JungJung (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Kyle EdmundEdmund (1-4) – See H2H details