Nick Kyrgios dispatches Kevin Anderson 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 1st round in Atlanta on Tuesday. Kyrgios will play Cameron Norrie in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 21 minutes. Kyrgios won this tournament once in 2016. Here you can see his history at this event.
Nick added to his prize money $ 4,755 after winning this match. He has won already $ 11,930 after this win. If he wins the next match, Nick will add $ 6,625 to his earnings to get in total $ 18,555 in total.
Highlights Nick Kyrgios vs. Kevin Anderson Truist Atlanta Open – Atlanta
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 63 points vs. Kevin’s 54.
Kyrgios
Nick served exceptionally well to win 86% of the points (36/42) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (12/20) on his second serve. Kyrgios fired 15 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Nick won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points after he converted only 33% (1/3) of the procured opportunities.
Anderson
On the other side, the South African wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Nick was just to good and Kevin had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Kyrgios and Anderson is 1-2 for Kevin.
Draw and next match H2H: Nick Kyrgios vs. Cameron Norrie – stats
Kyrgios will square off with Norrie in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Nick Kyrgios and Cameron Norrie play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kyrgios and Norrie (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Finally, Nick won the tiebreak at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Nick won 5 minibreaks in the 4th (2-2), 5th (3-2), 8th (5-3), 9th (6-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, the South african won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 7th (3-4) and 10th (4-6) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 0-2, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
The Australian was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 1st
game (0-0 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Nick didn’t concede a single break point during this set.They contested 71 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Nick won just 1 point more than the South African (36-35). Kyrgios conceded 8 points on serve (26-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Anderson conceded 10 points on serve (27-10).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Kyrgios snatched in the 8th
game (5-3) just before eventually conquering the set (6-3).They contested 46 points. Nick won 10 points more than the South African (28-18). The Australian lost 6 points on serve (22-6). On the other side, the South african conceded 6 points on serve (12-6).
Tennis Scores in Atlanta
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- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Trent BrydeBryde (6-1 6-75 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Denis KudlaKudla (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Kevin AndersonAnderson (7-64 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- John IsnerIsner – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 6-73 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jack SockSock – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-74 6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-72 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-62 1-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Andreas SeppiSeppi (7-5 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-64 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (4-6 7-63 7-65) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- John IsnerIsner – Jack SockSock (5-3) – H2H details and stats
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Steve JohnsonJohnson (3-2) – H2H details and stats
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H details and stats