Novak Djokovic blitzes Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3 6-1 in the 2nd round in Dubai on Wednesday after playing a superlative match to face off with Karen Khachanov 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 the Serbian conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Djokovic was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Kohlschreiber in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. The Serbian managed to boost his lead after breaking Philipp in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
A crucial moment of the match was when Djokovic won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Novak scored 55 points vs. Kohlschreiber’s 33 points.
Novak served pretty well to win 79% of the points (19/24) behind his first serve, and he won 70% points (14/20) on his second serve. The Serbian didn’t lose the focus when converting 57% of the break points that he procured (4/7). On the other side, the German wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Djokovic and Kohlschreiber is 12-2 for Novak.
Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai
Next Match H2H: Novak Djokovic vs. Karen Khachanov – stats
Djokovic will face Khachanov in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Novak Djokovic and Karen Khachanov play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Khachanov won 7-5 6-4 in the final in Paris back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (7-63 6-0) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (7-5 3-6 7-67) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Benoit PairePaire (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alexander BublikBublik (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Dennis NovakNovak (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Richard GasquetGasquet (10-7) – 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
