DUBAI RESULTS. Andrey Rublev topples Krajinovic in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships

Andrey Rublev victorious over Filip Krajinovic 7-6³ 6-0 in the 2^nd round in Dubai on Wednesday. Rublev will engage against Daniel Evans in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Andrey won the set after recovering 3 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding his serve 3 times in the 4^th (1-3), in the 8^th (3-5) and in the 12^th (6-6) game. The Russian broke back 3 times in the 7^th (3-4), in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 3.

The Russian failed to serve out the set when leading 6-5 to be broken at 15.

2^nd set.

Krajinovic had to weaponry to counter the opposition and Andrey won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Andrey scored 85 points vs. Filip’s 63 points.

Andrey fired 12 aces and he committed 2 double faults. The Russian won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points because he converted only 32% (6/19). On the other side, Krajinovic was effective in converting 75% of the break points that he conquered points (3/4). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.

After this match, the head to head between Rublev and Krajinovic is 2-2.

Highlights Andrey Rublev vs. Filip Krajinovic Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Andrey Rublev vs. Daniel Evans – stats

Rublev will fight against Evans in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Andrey Rublev and Daniel Evans face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Rublev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Rublev won 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the quarter in Adelaide back in January 2020.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Daniel EvansEvans – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (7-5 3-6 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (7-6³ 6-0) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alexander BublikBublik (7-6¹ 6-4) – See score progression
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Dennis NovakNovak (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (7-2) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (2-1) – See H2H details
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (2-1) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – See H2H details