Kevin Anderson downs Illya Marchenko 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Newport on Monday. The match lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes. This run will match his best result in this competition. Here you can see his history at this event.
Kevin added to his prize money $ 3,985 after winning this match. He has won already $ 10,015 after this win. If he wins the next match, Kevin will add $ 5,565 to his earnings to get in total $ 15,580 in total.
Highlights Kevin Anderson vs. Illya Marchenko Hall of Fame Open – Newport
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Anderson scored 69 points vs. the Ukrainian’s 55.
Anderson
The South African served exceptionally well to win 81% of the points (34/42) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (17/30) on his second serve. Anderson fired 16 aces and he committed 1 double fault. The South African was great in converting all the break points (2/2).
Marchenko
On the other side, Illya wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Anderson and Marchenko is 4-0 for Kevin.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Anderson conquered in the 12th game (7-5).
They played 68 points. Anderson was the winner of the set after clinching 6 more points than Illya (37-31). Anderson lost 10 points on serve (27-10). On the other side, the Ukrainian conceded 10 points on serve (21-10).
Anderson didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Illya Marchenko in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break resulted decisive for Anderson to win the set (6-3) as there were no other breaks.
Kevin was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 2nd game (1-0 15-40). On the other side, the Ukrainian was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th game (1-3 40-A and 40-A).
They played 55 points. Kevin was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than the Ukrainian (31-24). The South African lost 11 points on serve (24-11). Regarding the other side of the net, Marchenko conceded 7 points on serve (13-7).
Tennis Scores in Newport
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Jurij RodionovRodionov (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Steve JohnsonJohnson (7-63 3-6 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (5-4 ret.) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ivo KarlovicKarlovic – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Joao SousaSousa – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Denis KudlaKudla – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jack SockSock – Alex BoltBolt (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Jason JungJung (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Maxime CressyCressy – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (0-0) – H2H details and stats