DUBAI RESULTS. Amazing Djokovic thumps Khachanov in the quarter

Novak Djokovic grounds Karen Khachanov 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in Dubai on Thursday after playing a fantastic match to come up against Gael Monfils in the semifinal.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Serbian in this set played a much better tennis than Khachanov and consequently he won 6-2. Karen broke the Serbian 3 times in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (5-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game. However, the Serbian broke his opponent in the 7^th (5-2) game, but that didn’t prevent his to conquer the set (6-2).

Novak failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 40.

One of the most important stint of the contest was when Djokovic won 4 consecutive games in the 1^st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.

2^nd set.

Novak in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay the Russian and without too much hustling he won 6-2 after breaking the Russian in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Djokovic scored 60 points vs. Karen’s 34 points.

The Serbian served extremely well to win 89% of the points (24/27) behind his first serve. Nevertheless he won only 44% points (8/18) on his second serve. Djokovic was effective in converting 56% of the break points that he conquered (5/9). On the other side, the Russian was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Djokovic and Khachanov is 3-1 for Novak.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Karen Khachanov Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai

Next Match H2H: Novak Djokovic vs. Gael Monfils – stats

Djokovic will come up against Monfils in the semifinal.

This will be the 17^th time that Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils clash against each other. The head to head is 16-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 11-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Djokovic won 6-3 6-2 in the R in Atp cup back in January 2020.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Andrey RublevRublev (6-2 7-6⁹) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Gael MonfilsMonfils (16-0) – See H2H details
• Daniel EvansEvans – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – See H2H details