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
1st 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 4th (3-1), in the 6th (5-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game. However, the Serbian broke his opponent in the 7th (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 1st set to change the scoreline from 1-1 to 5-1.
2nd 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 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (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 17th 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
