Emil Ruusuvuori breezes past Timofey Skatov 6-2 6-0 in the 1st round in Nur-Sultan on Tuesday after playing a fantastic match to fight against Jordan Thompson in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
Ruusuvuori commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Skatov in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Finn to win the set as the Kazakhstani succeeded in breaking back in the 5th (2-3) game. Emil kept his focus to break the Kazakhstani in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Emil converted 60% of his break points (3/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 4th (3-0 40-A), the 6th (3-2 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, Timofey was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 5th game (1-3 30-40).
They played 49 points. Ruusuvuori conquered the set after winning 13 points more than Timofey (31-18). Emil conceded 8 points on serve (15-8). On the other side, Skatov conceded 16 points on serve (10-16).
Skatov had no answers anymore and the Finn won the set 6-0.
Emil converted 42% of his break points (3/7). He had 7 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 15-40) and the 6th game (5-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Finn didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 34 points. Ruusuvuori won 18 points more than Timofey (26-8). Ruusuvuori was incredibly sharp on serve to concede barely 1 point during his serving games (12-1). On the other side, the Kazakhstani conceded 14 points on serve (7-14).
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At the end of the match, Ruusuvuori scored 57 points vs. Skatov’s 26.
Ruusuvuori served extremely well to win 96% of the points (22/23) behind his first serve. Notwithstanding he won only 38% points (5/13) on his second serve. Ruusuvuori was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (6/12). On the other side, The Kazakhstani was remarkable in converting the only break point that he converted. Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this encounter, the head to head between Ruusuvuori and Skatov is 1-0 for Emil.
Draw and next match H2H: Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Jordan Thompson – stats
Ruusuvuori will square off with Thompson in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Emil Ruusuvuori and Jordan Thompson since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Nur-Sultan
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Alexander BublikBublik (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-75 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-3 3-6 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 7-67) – Stats and score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-1 5-7 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-3 1-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Cameron NorrieNorrie (5-7 7-66 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-62 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Dmitry PopkoPopko (4-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yuichi SugitaSugita (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Benoit PairePaire – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Tommy PaulPaul – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
