Aslan Karatsev survives Aljaz Bedene 6-3 4-6 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Belgrade on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Karatsev will try to keep the momentum against Gianluca Mager in the quarter. The battle lasted 2 hours and 32 minutes.
Aslan added to his prize money € 8,360 after winning this match. He has won already € 19,840 after this win. If he wins the next match, Aslan will add € 14,870 to his earnings to get in total € 34,710 in total.
Highlights Aslan Karatsev vs. Aljaz Bedene Serbia Open – Belgrade
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:32
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 99 points vs. the Slovenian’s 96.
Karatsev
Aslan won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Bedene
On the other side, Aljaz was pretty good at converting 57% of the break points that he conquered points (4/7). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Karatsev and Bedene is 1-0 for Aslan.
Draw and next match H2H: Aslan Karatsev vs. Gianluca Mager – stats
Karatsev will compete against Mager in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Aslan Karatsev and Gianluca Mager clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Karatsev and Mager (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Karatsev won 6-3 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Australian open back in February 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Karatsev clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Aslan broke back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game to conquer the set 6-3.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Karatsev won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the score from 1-2 to 5-2.
Aslan was spot on in converting all his break points in the 4th (1-2 15-40) and the 5th game (3-2 15-40). On the other side, the Slovenian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (1-1 0-40).
They contested 48 points. The Russian won 4 more points than the Slovenian (26-22). Aslan dropped 12 points on serve (17-12). on the other side of the court, Bedene conceded 9 points on serve (10-9).
Bedene won the set after he broke Aslan in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th (6-4) game. Karatsev tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 9th (5-4) game. However, Aljaz stayed solid to conquer the set 6-4.
The Slovenian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.
They played 65 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Bedene won just 1 point more than Karatsev (33-32). Bedene surrendered 17 points on serve (23-17). on the other side of the court, the Russian conceded 10 points on serve (15-10).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that the Russian grabbed in the 4th game (1-3) prior to eventually winning the set (7-6).
Tiebreak
Aslan won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Aljaz won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0) and 7th (3-4) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5
They contested 82 points. This set was so close that, Karatsev won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The Russian surrendered 17 points on serve (31-17). On the losing side, Bedene conceded 10 points on serve (24-10).
Tennis Scores in Belgrade
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Aljaz BedeneBedene (6-3 4-6 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 2-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – John MillmanMillman (3-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Gianluca MagerMager (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Taro DanielDaniel – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (1-0) – H2H details and stats
